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HN headline tomorrow: Senior engineers are literally gods

• smrtinsert 4y ago
  Relevant KRAZAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqexFg74F8&ab_channel=KRAZAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqexFg74F8&ab_channel=KRAZA...
• jasonlotito 4y ago
  Except that's not at all what the article is suggesting. Quite the opposite.
  • Invictus0 4y ago
    > it is literally effortless to accidentally cultivate the impression of being some kind of wizard
    • atomicnumber3 4y ago
      My impression of that bit was that the author was saying it may look like a senior engineer is a wizard, but actually it's just experience and it's not magic.
      • wiseowise 4y ago
        > just
      • zb 4y ago
        Exactly, but also that it's quite often experience you had this morning, not e.g. over the last 5 years, that makes the difference.
    • olddustytrail 4y ago
      A quote which shows you were wrong and the person you were responding to was right. You do know what is meant by "impression" in that sentence?
• Spooky23 4y ago
  Senior engineers are worms. Bow before the principal engineer.
• decebalus1 4y ago
  Wait until you hear about Staff engineers.