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There are lots of devs who have a personality that benefit from having a leader (PM). Also when you are doing the 101st CRUD type function in an app, you proba

• whatshisface 7y ago
  How can this state of affairs where developers grind out CRUD features and complain about how bored they are be stable? The identifying feature of areas where automation would be profitable is human boredom, and this is something where developers are the ones bored. Why hasn't all of the repetition in CRUD stuff been dealt with by now?
  • gombosg 7y ago
    Saying this is saying like "why do we need architects to design houses if all of them are just four walls and a roof?" Software engineering is not that different from mechanical or civil engineering or whatever other kinds of it. However you automate any design process, you'll still need engineers to properly utilize that automation, customize, verify, maintain (oversee manufacturing or software deployment) and fix problems.
  • imtringued 7y ago
    CRUD has been automated a long time ago. It's trivial to create forms with 120 fields based on scaffolding and automate the DB access with an ORM. It is time intensive to actually make software that is better than the paper equivalent. The scaffold puts everything on one page so you split it up into 10. You still have to interact with other systems to autofill form fields. Implement app specific access controls (only users in the same department can see each others forms, only X can actually edit). Implement the actual workflow (ask for digital signature from superior, send email, send end result to SAP or whatever).