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“A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React because they had read a blog post about another company do
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
“A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React because they had read a blog post about another company doing it. I entertained the question in good faith. However, in order to make an informed decision, I needed to understand a few things:
Is our checkout page not performing well?
Will a new checkout solve our problem?
Why do they think a technology change is a solution?
Do they understand the implications of such a switch?
In this particular situation, the discussion never got past the first question. I needed to understand why our checkout had to be improved; I explained that technology choices made no difference to the user. However, the manager interpreted my words as outright rejecting their idea.”
I have this problem which is that I don’t really understand what autism is supposed to be. Because the example of autism described above just seems like sound decision making. The person who wants to rewrite some software because they read a blog post about some programming language is just a person who doesn’t have a good understanding of what engineering and software development are.