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You said something that reach me so much: "tooling". I sometime feels like if you don't have good tools, it's almost impossible for the employees to be product
by alain_gilbert 9y ago
You said something that reach me so much: "tooling".
I sometime feels like if you don't have good tools, it's almost impossible for the employees to be productive or motivated.
I often see some people working in the most unproductive way possible (to my eyes) that it actually discourage me. I'm left wondering how they can even get anything done when spending so much time doing simple tasks.
- crdoconnor 9y agoYeah, I sometimes joke that the average developer is a somebody who pushes their code with a series of repetitive git commands typed in unreliably, deploys unreliably with a repetitive set of shell commands, relies almost totally on a battery of bored, robotically clicking manual testers and believes that he is automating people out of a job. I think one of the most underrated (and almost totally ignored) parts of the mythical man month was the notion of the toolsmith being a dedicated member of a good software team who doesn't work on features.