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>Software Engineers don’t understand the best way to make money Why not? Isn't efficiency and profitability fundamentally an engineering problem? Design a prod
by everdrive 2y ago
>Software Engineers don’t understand the best way to make money
Why not? Isn't efficiency and profitability fundamentally an engineering problem? Design a product to be as profitable as possible, understanding which items to focus on, and which corners to cut?
- snovv_crash 2y agoYes, typically the reason software engineers don't know how to make money (a premise I actually agree with) is because some product person is trying to translate the business problem into an engineering problem, rather than exposing the business problem to the engineer directly. IMO too much is lost in this translation step and you end up often with engineers not understanding why the product they're building actually needs to be the way it does, and then a product person chasing them in circles and telling them absolutely everything except what the business problem actually is.
- DandyDev 2y agoEfficiency is, profitability is not I think. Maybe I’ve worked with the wrong engineers, but many engineers I have worked with know how to solve technical problems, which does not necessarily mean customer problems. The reasons disciplines like marketing and sales exist and also why processes like product discovery exist is that if we would leave product development to engineers, we’d get super efficient machines and software that are really elegant but don’t necessarily solve the problems customers have, are way too expensive to build and are not being sold.