Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
by pdimitar on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:09PM
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> But I'd argue that most 'computer nerds' have pretty deeply seated perfectionism flaws.
My goal here absolutely was not to turn this sub-thread into a ping-pong of "but managers bad at X" and "but but but programmers bad at Y".
I am very aware of the nuance you introduced and I've been guilty of being a tech perfectionist much more times that I'd be comfortable with sharing. But finally I learned.
(Granted, many haven't and maybe never will. In this regard you do have a solid point.)
> So sometimes as technical people we fetishize the perfect solution to some problem in the Enterprise, when actually doing that solution would be horrible for the Enterprise due to the costs.
Absolutely. Not denying it. It's just that what gets me is the reaction to some of the engineers' flaws is to go to the other extreme.
Which is just as bad state of things. Both extremes are unproductive.
My goal here absolutely was not to turn this sub-thread into a ping-pong of "but managers bad at X" and "but but but programmers bad at Y".
I am very aware of the nuance you introduced and I've been guilty of being a tech perfectionist much more times that I'd be comfortable with sharing. But finally I learned.
(Granted, many haven't and maybe never will. In this regard you do have a solid point.)
> So sometimes as technical people we fetishize the perfect solution to some problem in the Enterprise, when actually doing that solution would be horrible for the Enterprise due to the costs.
Absolutely. Not denying it. It's just that what gets me is the reaction to some of the engineers' flaws is to go to the other extreme.
Which is just as bad state of things. Both extremes are unproductive.