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> I think devs often make bad decision makers because in some sense tech is often an addiction rather than a pragmatic choice. I also think this has a lot to d
by skohan 7y ago
> I think devs often make bad decision makers because in some sense tech is often an addiction rather than a pragmatic choice.
I also think this has a lot to do with how devs spend our time: with the tech itself. Whether your application is running on Kubernetes or a box in your garage matters to precisely zero customers as long as it performs well, but as developers we spend our whole day dealing with various APIs and technologies, so we develop an outsized sense of the importance of those things.
- pjmlp 7y agoWhich is why I think it helps a lot to work in domains where shipping software is not the core business, just a cost center to keep real business going on. One quickly learns that business has a complete different set of priorities and dealing with software as little bonsai trees is not one of them.