Re:Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
by eternityforest on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:17PM
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Would programmers actually get anything done without micromanagement?
Programmers like the search for beauty and solving interesting problems. They like simplicity, understanding, and privacy.
Users and business people like features that just work and don't care about code quality, and are perfectly happy with spyware business models.
Managers would probably run things into the ground with tech debt if they had full control.... but there might be a fear programmers would turn every project into something like KiCad and Vim put together, written in Haskell,with core use case features handled by "A simple 10 line user script".
Firefox's market share is probably a good example of what happens when developers make decisions(Except web devs and the like who seem to have different personalities).
Developers are always going to feel like they are being puppeted by morons because most developers don't seem to like the actual work their doing and sometimes even wish the product they make didn't exist.
I never see programmers saying things like "I fucking love the IoT! Check out this awesome new API Google invented! Let's replace every kerosene lamp in the world with LEDs".
Instead I see them telling me I should use dd instead of Etcher because Etcher is 80MB.
As moronic as managers can be, at least they somewhat see the value in what they build.
Programmers like the search for beauty and solving interesting problems. They like simplicity, understanding, and privacy.
Users and business people like features that just work and don't care about code quality, and are perfectly happy with spyware business models.
Managers would probably run things into the ground with tech debt if they had full control.... but there might be a fear programmers would turn every project into something like KiCad and Vim put together, written in Haskell,with core use case features handled by "A simple 10 line user script".
Firefox's market share is probably a good example of what happens when developers make decisions(Except web devs and the like who seem to have different personalities).
Developers are always going to feel like they are being puppeted by morons because most developers don't seem to like the actual work their doing and sometimes even wish the product they make didn't exist.
I never see programmers saying things like "I fucking love the IoT! Check out this awesome new API Google invented! Let's replace every kerosene lamp in the world with LEDs".
Instead I see them telling me I should use dd instead of Etcher because Etcher is 80MB.
As moronic as managers can be, at least they somewhat see the value in what they build.