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>They hired a lot of "smart" developers, but they also took forever to ship anything. Oh man does this resonate with me. Some of the "smartest" people we've hi
by gaoshan 3y ago
>They hired a lot of "smart" developers, but they also took forever to ship anything.
Oh man does this resonate with me. Some of the "smartest" people we've hired have also been the slowest to deliver as they waffle and perfect and theorize and play with the tasks they have.
- tines 3y agoBut then their playtime projects may turn into your next big product :)
- afjeafaj848 3y agoThat's something I didn't get for a long time There is a difference between being smart and effective
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI love the word effective and use it all the time. It almost immediately gets rid of a lot of idealism.
- willsmith72 3y agoYep, more and more I think of the engineers I want on my team as "product engineers" over software engineers. Overengineering is the devil
- danielvaughn 3y agoMy go-to line is "I don't like working with geniuses, they're idiots." Of course I don't actually think that, but there does seem to be a kind of parochial navel-gazing that comes with the high intellect territory, and in tech that manifests itself in absurdly over-engineered solutions.