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I think to this point, the organizations that will really succeed in the future are the ones who aggressively hire people with a strong cross of building simple

by ellius 10y ago

I think to this point, the organizations that will really succeed in the future are the ones who aggressively hire people with a strong cross of building simple, usable and understandable technical tools who also understand business logic and can communicate. I think soon people will be able get further with some basic R/Python and the ability to write a good email than many of the more technically skilled workers without those abilities.

ethbro 10y ago
To tease out a little more from yours and parent's comments, I think a few things are drastically undervalued by traditional programmers. Tactical initiative: not just for Marines. The closer software is being built to a person who actually posseses the domain knowledge, the less risk of misunderstood requirements / behavior there is. Readability: a language that requires six months to learn to read but expresses programs in half the length is often times not the right choice. If a good enough language can be read by someone with a week of training, and 90% of the domain knowledge is possessed by people who don't know the better knowledge, then use the good-enough language. Reasons like these are why Excel / VBA is used. And moreover, why it (paradoxically to us) works.