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Software developers are not as smart as they think. The most disastrous technical decisions I have seen have all come from developers, not from clueless non-tec
by goto11 5y ago
Software developers are not as smart as they think. The most disastrous technical decisions I have seen have all come from developers, not from clueless non-technical managers. Things like "lets rewrite everything in foo-language, this will solve all our problems."
- mbrodersen 5y agoI don’t think that point of view is contrarian? At least among the more experienced developers. My guesstimate that 80% of problems in software development are created by the software developers themselves.
- strzibny 5y agoI personally really had to fight off clueless technical decisions from non-technical leaders, so it depends on where you are coming from.
- Jensson 5y agoIf clueless developers gets to make such decisions then the problem is that clueless management is too clueless to say no.