Ok so if you have a problem and the developer thinks that the solution to it is to add an API, all they have to do to get their way is to say "let's just add an

Ok so if you have a problem and the developer thinks that the solution to it is to add an API, all they have to do to get their way is to say "let's just add an API!", although they would of course be the one that had to make it work. Yes I like this rule, how many things I could have solved at the worst run place I ever worked at if it had been implemented there. Although I guess the management might not have liked that essentially I could choose what got done and what I got to work on just by running my big mouth. facetiousness aside, I'm trying to point out that most often when people say "let's just" it is because they are advocating a course of action and that rule won't work unless the course they are advocating gets chosen. If they say "let's just make an api" and you say no we're doing a UI and you will work on it because you used the word "Just" I guess that's a way to lose your tech talent relatively quickly.