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As opposed to all those people that make similarly comfortable careers in middle and upper mgmt by identifying simple systems and complicating them beyond recog

• joshuahutt 3y ago
  It's a beautiful symbiosis.
• solarkraft 3y ago
  These roles aren't opposed at all, they greatly benefit each other :-) Bringing what used to be the privilege of upper management (wasting massive amounts of resources while getting paid handsomely) down to software developers. It's that trickle-down effect people talked about, right?
• oooyay 3y ago
  Hah, yes. I will say that while I understand the general disdain here, as I grew more senior in my career I realized the world takes all types. There are "doers" who will rush to an end goal that's highly prioritized and then there's "optimizers" who come fix that mess up into a durable, cost-effective system. Some people are gifted enough in knowledge and have the right business priority to do both at the same time, but usually they're required at different times. Anecdotally, optimization tasks (in this brain) are multitudes easier than innovation tasks. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to do things differently whereas optimization utilizes many lessons I've learned over and over again with well-trodden patterns. That's to say, I'm grateful for the doers :)