Very surprised at this attitude.

Or am I. The typical engineering savant omniscient to all future past and present engineering roadblocks fixed by “Just”(TM) thinking about it beforehand. I expect this from bay area mid level not someone with credentials.

Strange because I agree with so much more of the article

TBH, I think it's more of a 'manager' attitude. A lot of actual "hacker" type people are very much in the "rough consensus and working code" category where you see what works by doing it.