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Hm what company / subfield is this in? I definitely think tools can have a lot of leverage, and an experienced IC could easily develop a tool that would save t

by chubot 7y ago

Hm what company / subfield is this in? I definitely think tools can have a lot of leverage, and an experienced IC could easily develop a tool that would save time for the whole team. And I've seen it happen. But IME this is the exception rather than the rule. The experienced engineer usually gets the credit for building the system with the tool (for which it was essential), but not building the tool itself. The tool is considered useless until someone has proved it on a important, shipping project.

jupp0r 7y ago
The tool can be a library that software made by other teams depends on (directly or indirectly).
- fg6hr 7y ago
  This often doesn't mean much because when there are tons of highly capable engineers, anyone could write that library and it's only a question who had a chance to do it.
  - jupp0r 7y ago
    With that argument, nobody can ever have high impact on anything.