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Re:How I Did It: From Psych Degree to VP of Data Science at ... by wil421 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @10:57AM (#22457363)
It depends on the mindset of the developer or engineer. Some very smart people just want to code the thing according to the spec and not deviate. They don’t really care about the result because it’s not their problem the requirements are changing. They coded the thing based on spec that was given.

I’ll push back a lot and I’ve seen other much more senior technical people that will do the same. A lot of people just want to come to work, heads down coding, and then leave.

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Re:How I Did It: From Psych Degree to VP of Data Science at ... by wolco on Sunday March 01, 2020 @01:19PM (#22458219)
Getting stuck on trying to achieve a certain result and changing the rules to get there is usually a sign of a bad program that is not flexible and brittle.

Sounds like there is more of a problem with how the army is asking verse what they expect. If they were more direct in what they wanted vs measuring some scenerio they created.

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