Specialization for the most part yields higher efficiency. Engineers have not been trained gauge audience needs. It is as inefficient for an engineer to be invo

Specialization for the most part yields higher efficiency. Engineers have not been trained gauge audience needs. It is as inefficient for an engineer to be involved in product design as it would be for the PM to be involved in the actual coding. >Coder monkeys can get away with "I code what I'm told without providing any further input to anything else". Being a coder monkey has nothing to do with influence in product development. You can have no influence on the product being created, and still have complete autonomy over the technology used to create the product. You contribute feedback on the technology side: implementing this feature will take X time and result in Y cost in run time. The product is generic. Two completely different projects with the same X, Y, Z constraints end up with almost identical engineering solutions.