If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefi… - Paul Graham

The right way to collaborate, I think, is to divide projects into sharply defined modules, each with a definite owner,

I don't agree with Elon about everything, but you have to give him this: He's achieved much more than roughly 100% of his critics.

I expected technology to make programming less laborious, as it does to most things. But I have to admit I expected it to happen by programmers switching to more powerful languages, rather than continuing to write programs full of boilerplate, but having AIs generate most of it.