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The idea that management exists to perpetuate the things on the left is as cynical and generally wrong as the idea that coders exist to increase complexity and
by troll24601 15y ago
The idea that management exists to perpetuate the things on the left is as cynical and generally wrong as the idea that coders exist to increase complexity and guarantee their own necessity. It is true only of the worst of either group of people. The best work hard to make themselves unnecessary.
- moonchrome 15y ago>coders exist to increase complexity and guarantee their own necessity Holds true in more cases than not, at least in my experience in the enterprise. "Writing your own X" when off-the-shelf solution is available is a dominant example of this.
- rbanffy 15y agoIn many companies the same rigid structures that allow them to operate with average and below-population-average employees reward those who can game them andreduce their own output to the lowest levels toleraed by the structure. I have freed many good programmers from this trap, but not nearly enough and many remain to be saved.
- rbanffy 15y agoI've seen the very worst managers a lot more frequently than the very worst programmers. While some structures may reward bad programmers, structures far more frequently reward bad managers and very often prvide them with a place to hide their inadequacies very easily.
- Joeri 15y agoThat's because if a programmer is bad, work doesn't get done, and people notice immediately. But if a manager is bad, the subordinates often manage to get work done despite the manager, and the bad manager is in turn more likely to have a bad manager who doesn't recognize the on-going failure.
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