Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
by TZubiri on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:17PM
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There are properties to softeng that make it unique, which is probably true of any discipline.
It is well established in the case of swe that there is a winner takes all dynamic and huuge variance. Which means that most engineers will probably contribute nothing.
If you measure something measurable like work units or tickets closed, yeah you can do your work and go home and you can 'do' work every day.
But also in a sense you can do that for your whole life and contribute less than the guy who jerked off every day of their life, but figured out the right thing to do.
It is well established in the case of swe that there is a winner takes all dynamic and huuge variance. Which means that most engineers will probably contribute nothing.
If you measure something measurable like work units or tickets closed, yeah you can do your work and go home and you can 'do' work every day.
But also in a sense you can do that for your whole life and contribute less than the guy who jerked off every day of their life, but figured out the right thing to do.