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You’ll never go poor overestimating developer laziness.
by NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
You’ll never go poor overestimating developer laziness.
- mgkimsal 3y agoI worked on a couple teams (contract - 3-6 months at a stretch), and teams had postman licenses for everyone - assuming it was some enterprise-type deal. No developers used it. We all had access to it, but none used it (well, none did in the several months I was there). I guess some used it at some point, but it was primarily a tool some testers used, from what I could tell. Now... devs needed access to it to help answer questions from time to time, and I guess... 'using it' would be to put some new endpoint info in some collection, then grant access to it, but it wasn't anything helping out any developers day to day. But the companies paid for full licensing for everyone anyway - perhaps that's just easier in some sense? I guess that's the game?
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoI think the developer productivity tooling market exists at such high valuation because no one has really any useful metrics in that space. I’ve worked in firms where we’ve bought into ideas that are absolutely based on cognitive dissonance - like the business cases across initiatives collectively achieving a >100% reduction in “inefficiencies”. That tells me at least some of those business cases are wrong but they’re all getting investment. Tends to be a “biggest bullshitter wins” thing.