@davidbeers@dair-community.social
Post #2232176
2023-09-17 21:27 UTC
@trochee@dair-community.social @afeinman@wandering.shop @jk@mastodon.social in fairness, the “talking down” just as often goes the other direction: engineers asking for evidence that a gold-plated “requirement” that will takes months to build will be a better user value than a simple one that would take weeks or days. The answer (or lack thereof) often boils down to the highest paid person in the room wanting a big bang project to his name. Engineers learn faster that such projects are exhausting and tend to fail.
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@davidbeers@dair-community.social 2023-09-17 21:30
@trochee@dair-community.social @afeinman@wandering.shop @jk@mastodon.social so yes, that focus on the user is absolutely part of the job of a software engineer.
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@trochee@dair-community.social 2023-09-18 02:23
@davidbeers@dair-community.social @afeinman@wandering.shop @jk@mastodon.social Indeed I am often "talking down off the ledge" requirements that we use (just for example) an LLM when a rule-based system (maybe with a little Bayes-sauce) is equally effective, far more predictable, and orders of magnitude smaller, faster, and easier to redirect as the product needs change