> I would think a real engineer would provide a technical solution to a non-technical person for them to fiddle with themselves. Fiddling is one thing, and des

> I would think a real engineer would provide a technical solution to a non-technical person for them to fiddle with themselves. Fiddling is one thing, and designing a system to enable fiddling is something engineers often do. But a lot of PM requests aren't even close to fiddling. If your product is a streaming video service, adding DVR capabilities is something a PM might request. No amount of non-technical fiddling will enable that functionality. But a well-designed architecture with isolated functional components will make the work of adding such a feature far less painful than a poorly designed one would.