I had another case of the same development hell and I feel one coming in my current job soon. It’s easy for middle management to draw yearly plans in the slides

I had another case of the same development hell and I feel one coming in my current job soon. It’s easy for middle management to draw yearly plans in the slides. However reality can bite hard with silicon bugs, unusable libraries or even bugs in development tools. This camera disaster was in a big old company. They wanted to get mpg pictures straight from the camera to show on other device. Half million € was gone between planing and first buggy prototype. A company was hired to design it externally. This external company generated design with matlab rendering it non-debuggable. I think it’s managerial thing. I was screaming many times as simple developer not to hit own leg with an axe. But I felt like I was barking. Manager has always last word and there is a need for convincing to do technically sane thing. Now I just do what I was told. Even when technically it makes no sense. I don’t need additional tensions with insulted manager (anymore).