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The problem is the relative social status between the client and Geon. If the client had heart palpitations and Geon was a cardiologist, this wouldn't happen.
by lordnacho 6y ago
The problem is the relative social status between the client and Geon.
If the client had heart palpitations and Geon was a cardiologist, this wouldn't happen. You would not have Mr Alpha explaining to the doctor how he needs to do the scan and the surgery, and being very cross when he didn't get his way. Even though Mr Alpha probably cares more about his heart working than a user interface.
The same goes for pilots and other professionals, they get less crap than they would if they didn't have some sort of status that prevents most of the I-know-best crowd from sticking their heads in.
For some reason, software doesn't have that feel to it. In many places, it's a sort of implementation detail, where the generals have already decided the strategy, and the devs just have to follow the orders.
It would be good with some cultural change around what people think devs do and what you can say to them.
- SifJar 6y ago> If the client had heart palpitations and Geon was a cardiologist, this wouldn't happen. You would not have Mr Alpha explaining to the doctor how he needs to do the scan and the surgery, and being very cross when he didn't get his way. This is a bold assumption
- lordnacho 6y agoI'm not saying nobody's ever done that. But you cut most of the little annoying people with a bit of status. Ever sat in a lecture by someone famous, vs one by some random grad student?
- csours 6y agoMost people take doctors seriously, but "Alphas" do exactly the same thing to doctors and lawyers and other professionals that they do to programmers and tech support etc.
- betenoire 6y agoImo that change start with the developer that thinks their job is to "produce good code" instead of "work with others to create a good product". When we act like a coding-machine, we get treated like one.
- geon 6y ago> The problem is the relative social status between the client and Geon. Not only the social hierarchy, but age/experience and projected confidence. At least I think that was it. Because my suggestions were so completely disregarded. There was no motivation, or reasoning given. Just “no, do it my way”.