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Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by Dave3of5 on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:10AM (#29589718)
Always found that quote interesting as is not really correct. Everyone is a percentage of those traits. No one is universally clever and never does anything stupid for example.

It's putting people in a box which people love to do.

Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by foxhop on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:40AM (#29590874)
A generals job is to generalize and elevate the key agents.

The industrial idiot will cause more work, build in you into a corner, waste time, resources, people, lives, on counter productive missions and projects which distract from essential work, cause bottlenecks in any or all systems at once.

Objectively bad processes run away with more power than deserved.

An army of autonomous actors only works if you root out the problems and agents causing drift.

Re:Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much wo... by NikolaNovak on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:40PM (#29598061)
That's fair, but I think in this case boxing people is a method of telling the story, not the end goal; the goal is to point out how a seemingly good quality (Industrious, hard working, energetic) can have negative consequences and results if misused and misguided.