"So why should I offer equity to someone who I can easily replace (yes, everyone is replacable, but since it's my company I call the shots :)? At the end of the day, their job will only be transforming my thoughts into code."
To be fair the author of the post is asking skilled tech folk to avoid this "transform other people's ideas into code" role without either getting significant equity or a market salary.
You are saying that 'converting your thoughts into code" can be done by (relatively) unskilled, (relatively) low caliber, (relatively) easily replaceable devs.
You seem to be agreeing with the author more than disagreeing.
Jacques says (in effect) 'don't be this easily replaceable dev. be a really good dev and be a (co) founder".
To be fair the author of the post is asking skilled tech folk to avoid this "transform other people's ideas into code" role without either getting significant equity or a market salary.
You are saying that 'converting your thoughts into code" can be done by (relatively) unskilled, (relatively) low caliber, (relatively) easily replaceable devs.
You seem to be agreeing with the author more than disagreeing.
Jacques says (in effect) 'don't be this easily replaceable dev. be a really good dev and be a (co) founder".