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Any engineer who comes up with a solution that requires less new code being written is a more valuable engineer IMO. Less code is less time spent on building th
by i386 7y ago
Any engineer who comes up with a solution that requires less new code being written is a more valuable engineer IMO. Less code is less time spent on building then maintaining code for all eternity.
If you go through the build/buy/partner decision, and decide to buy or partner with development comprising of glue code - then that's probably the optimal solution for your org. And you made the right engineering choice.
- patrec 7y ago> Any engineer who comes up with a solution that requires less new code being written is a more valuable engineer IMO Of course less code is good, all things being equal. But taking that idea literally, basically no tooling code gets ever written and people develop some sort of learned helplessness around dysfunctional workflows that are just about feasible but fantastically wasteful of engineering time. This tends to happen a lot, also because tooling is often perceived by management as an unnecessary luxury.
- i386 7y agoAgree, In my own experience it’s only orgs with a min 50 to 100 developers who can afford to have a single developer (it was me!) out working on productivity tools.