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> difficult to make the stakeholder understand that no the bug-ridden mess with an injection per SQL query is not going into production ever. Why do you bother
by throwawaysleep 3y ago
> difficult to make the stakeholder understand that no the bug-ridden mess with an injection per SQL query is not going into production ever.
Why do you bother saving the stakeholder from themselves?
- Ensorceled 3y agoBecause the stakeholders often don't have the wherewithal to understand the difference so we shouldn't let the charlatans and terminally flawed take advantage of them.
- rubyfan 3y agoThere is an interesting difference in philosophy in this and the parent. One is the mindset that engineering is a profession and the other something of a market will sort itself out approach. Unfortunately we’re living in a world where the doors are coming off airplanes mid flight.
- rendall 3y agoOften these people are clients, so it's partly the team job to save them from themselves.
- Freak_NL 3y agoUsually because you will inevitably get tasked with fixing something in that mess, and will have to slowly sacrifice your soul to get into the warped brain of that 'prodigy' coworker to understand the code if you don't.
- eternityforest 3y agoIs that not considered part of a developers job?