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Re:Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform by austin-cheney on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:31PM (#44599501)
That depends entirely on the business and the experience of the given developer. There is a false perception that inventing an original solution is high risk. Risk is accounted for by the prior practice of the person doing the work and the degree of testing upon that work. This common false perception is Invented Here Syndrome.

In some cases it makes more sense to the business to approach an original solution as determined by external constraints in the project, such as eliminating dependencies, achieving a superior performance target, or unique security constraints.

Usually the primary concern in the big corporate world is hiring and firing, everything else be damned.

Re:Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform by nothercastle on Thursday July 17, 2025 @08:07PM (#44599755)
Mega corp doesn’t care about quality of product for the most part. Shareholder value in the right quarter is the name of the game. Often that means predictable and low risk as opposed to better or cheaper