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“How to make this work within constraints” and “When to suggest alternatives with better constraints that require smol tweaks in requirements” is the whole poin
by Swizec 5y ago
“How to make this work within constraints” and “When to suggest alternatives with better constraints that require smol tweaks in requirements” is the whole point of engineering.
“Build whatever they ask” is … eh it’s not what engineering is about. You have to be a partner, an expert. Can’t expect the suits to know everything, that’s what they hired you for.
- erdo 5y agoSo much this
- agumonkey 5y agoThe thing is, at least in my experience, until you work for someone (and especially alone) you have no feel for what constraints are. Especially in programming today.. we have almost infinite compute power and storage (unless you develop something very very demanding) so it's so easy to go wild. My only lone "pro" gig (and from scratch) I gained a knowledge about what is critical to make your project coast smoothly and how nothing else matters at all. You want clear / small / predictable changes toward a goal that can make you feel finished and solid rapidly. Unlike the neverending projects reboot with grandiose attempts at pure abstractions, that I used to do.