Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by avgDev on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:24PM (#31262609)

I worked with someone who did this. I'm glad he has moved on. He would not do basic tasks correctly. Had an attention span of a toddler. He was DBA and couldn't google simple problems. I asked him to do something he would say give me 20 minutes. 2 weeks later he would say "IT CANT BE DONE". Then, I would do it myself in a few minutes after googling the error.

Instead of applying knowledge, he would bring up all these buzzwords to meetings and not really understand what he was talking about. I get angry just thinking about it.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by digisign on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:12PM (#31265228)

Hmm, incompetent folks exist and need to be let go. However, I think it is a slightly different category than RDD.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers? by arinlen on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @09:28PM (#31268260)

> I worked with someone who did this.

Nothing in your comment points to resume-driven development. You even failed to mention any project or design decision. You just decided to get angry at a coworker because of something.

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