How do Developers Rank Themselves?

Developers can be in it for different things:

• Providing Human Value through Information Automation
• Rent-Seeking (think Database Administrators, there are more than their contribution to human value would suggest)
• Feeling of Importance (think Xah Lee, their development decisions are based on what they can use to stoke their ego)

This is why you have to be a little skeptical of any ranking of fitness of developers. If it is based on rent-seeking or ego, it may be more about destroying human value, not creating it.