Post #1515107
2025-09-12 17:12 UTC
This is a post by Anastasjia Uspenski about how the "myth of the 10x engineer" is actively harmful (the post is itself based on a talk by @mipsytipsy at the Craft Conference in Budapest):
https://shiftmag.dev/10x-engineers-charity-majors-5755/?ref=cloudnative.now
"If there is a single non-negotiable truth in Charity’s worldview, it’s this: shipping is how engineers learn. Not architecture diagrams. Not months of planning. Not 400-comment design docs. Shipping."
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@mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io 2025-11-08 22:51
@drmorr those other things -- diagrams, planning, design docs -- can be very useful too! but shipping is when you learn whether what you learned from them was right or not. And far better to learn, and validate; learn, validate; learn, validate; in tight, fast, happy loops along the way, than to discover some structural flaw on the other side of six months' labor.