Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'

Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by JohnBooty on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:06PM (#21508905)

When dealing with complicated systems (PARTICULARLY fragile, over-complicated ones) the engineers are often (unfairly) seen as "brilliant" because they're the only ones that understand the mess.

It's ironic, right?

The more fragile and over-complicated the system, the more the engineers who created the mess in the first are considered "brilliant."

I've seen this countless times.

(In defense of such engineers, it's often not their fault. They built one thing, and then management and business needs dictated a plethora of changes and technical debt against their wishes. I have been one of these engineers on occasion)

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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by tarsinge on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:58PM (#21509331)

The irony is strong because brilliant engineers are the ones able to simplify problems and write simple, robust and easy to understand code. Whereas not so good engineers don't know how to manage complexity and write fragile code (and yes I'm guilty of that but trying to improve).

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