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by ath3nd 3y ago
Fair enough! I used "advocating" loosely here. I hate the "advocate a lot, build nothing" mindset myself, and I am not a fan of the Bay Area and its practices (to put it mildly), so I edited my post. What I mean is devs
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I can most certainly and confidently tell you that a dedicated QA team that only does testing is a total waste of money! A sre/platform team building fuzzy testing tools and mandating better testing practices is money much better spent
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Who is bonusing who? I think some people simply can't get rid of the idea that there has to be some external paternalistic figure that looks over developers' shoulder and guides the poor hapless saps and their incentives. Do they
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by ath3nd 3y ago
The developer teams, of course. They are solving the problems, so why should they not prioritize them? They just need to have other parts of the org heard, but if you are solving it, you get to choose how to do it, in what order and with wh
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I don't consider the engineering having a deep understanding of the domain and compliance to be a "encumberance". The more engineers get into the domain themselves, the more they can make deep decisions about how to build the
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I work in the medical field which is fairly heavily regulated as well. My teams have been able to do our job without having a dedicated medical compliance expert as their PM. We just have a medical compliance team and ask them for input, bu
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by ath3nd 3y ago
That's not a product manager. That's a domain expert. You might have to check some regulatory checkboxes: - financial - medical - data protection and you might need different experts' opinion for that. Do you suggest that the
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> In that scenario, who is driving product requirements? The developer teams, who else? You build it, you need to know what you are building, right? I find it fascinating that the dev community that gobbled so easily "You build it,
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by ath3nd 3y ago
All those jobs do look the same because they are all bullshit jobs which infantile developers assuming they can't do and decide anything for themselves but write code on command.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
That's a very based take! The whole idea of a PM boils down to address a less qualified non technical middle man to make all the important decisions, while also pigeon hole your communications with the rest of the stakeholders. Why doe
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I don't believe in Product Managers or Project Owners as a net good towards building a better product or a better company. The most successful teams I have been in had no dedicated product role, instead, all decisions were made by the
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Are you saying that when interest rates are high, a company making record profits HAS to engage in price increases, wage freezing and layoffs, to satisfy a made up instrument explaining basic economy? This is is like companies' belief
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Exactly my point! When Econ 101 enters the room, humanity and morality are gone. reduced to mere numbers on a spreadsheet. The fact that you try to explain away some of the worst examples of human greed as the companies simply following the
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Better do nothing, accept that we are gonna burn, and crank that gas up, right?
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> But the root cause was the risky loans in the first place. AKA not enough regulation from the government to the business. > As they sold and passed ratings approval from the institutions that were supposed to identify these risks fo
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> If you agree that companies aren't just all deciding together to have layoffs at once, and it is instead a complicated result of interest rates (feel free to say it is the result of the models that come after the Philips Curve!),
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by ath3nd 3y ago
First of all, the Phillips curve, really? That's a flawed boomer way to correlate inflation and employment percentage. Tell me you are like 3000 years old and out of touch with economy and the world as a whole without telling me. It&#x
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by ath3nd 3y ago
How is it bad to have job security and collective bargaining rights? > I can't think of anything worse for software developers than having some politically motivated organization Unions are not politically motivated. They are a soci
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by ath3nd 3y ago
At will employment is a steaming pile of trash that benefits only employers (a cartel themselves), and leaves employees unprotected.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
You know who caused raised the raised interest rates? The same megacorps that borrowed and overhired like insane during the pandemic to boost their stock price, now scream bloody hell and cut major portion of the people they just hired du
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by ath3nd 3y ago
I am not sure if it's worth explaining it either if you don't get it straight up, but I will try. I am not hinting at a conspiracy here. I am merely pointing to the fact that when the megacorps saw an opportunity to: - reduce spen
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Have you not seen the coordinated layoffs in tech the last 1.5 years? How is that not collective bargaining against tech talent? They all used every excuse they have: overhiring, wars, inflation (which they partially helped create) to flood
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by ath3nd 3y ago
The megacorps created a situation in which thousands of people are jobless and with stagnating wages, while they hit record profits. What is stopping Fastmail to employ the playbook of the megacorps and do a couple of rounds of layoffs? Or
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Corporations are not people.
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by ath3nd 3y ago
Yes, I can swear that we either have professional union busters among us, or people have been heavily indoctrinated to willingly take it from their corporate overlords. I simply can't believe why even the high paid workers like the sof
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by ath3nd 3y ago
You actually can! If the government doesn't protect your wages, you are left at the mercy and greed of capital. I can guarantee you that means you will be thrown under the bus the first opportunity they see fit, as soon as it makes a f
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by ath3nd 3y ago
> This is the post that proves that you never used agile. And nobody you worked with ever used it. Sorry to hear that you have been scammed :( Ah, yes, I've heard that before. I am simply not using the "proper scrum", righ
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by ath3nd 3y ago
The rant is 100% spot on. Agile is like an insidious cancer that spreads and saps an organization of its strength, time and resources. What Agile does to your best people is just next level cruel. They are bombarded with constant meetings,
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by ath3nd 3y ago
A twitch button clicker thing that also keeps a track of how much points it saves you from clicking yourself. I generally try to inspect the code of any extensions in my browser, but found it's too much work to also do it for the upgra
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by ath3nd 3y ago
They might be onto something here. Instead of doing lots of back-n-forth with the giants, enriching them with each prompt, you get a smaller local model that's much more respectful of your privacy. That's an operating model I am w

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