Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
this is why I encourage marketing people & the average layperson to learn to code
the people who know how to code arenât smart. Theyâre hiding behind a veneer of complexity so that you donât question their work
2024-09-26
THANK YOU PEOPLE IN DMS TELLING ME TO SPLIT THE DATA INTO CHUNKS. GEE I NEITHER THOUGHT OF THAT NOR CLEARLY EXPLAINED THAT I DID IT ALREADY IN MY LONG THREAD
idk this phenomenon of ppl in technical fields being wildly dumb sometimes?
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
theyâll say itâs impossible to do this product feature the artist wanted, theyâll say big words like the DB cache and the AWS cost and Iâll walk in the room and say âwtd, itâs totally possible. just put it in a spreadsheet & do it all client sideâ and weâll just do it
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
Iâve literally been in big tech when Iâve said âwhy are we doing it this way? We can do it in 2 days instead of 1 monthâ and the lead says âno itâs complicatedâ. I ask 14 other people, including other team leads, and no one understands why we need to do it that way
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
Literally one fucking guy, can you believe it? Going around saying âtrust me itâs complicatedâ and zero people agree, but are afraid for speaking up. I made a fucking secret slack channel where we gathered to talk about this. Insane stuff man
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
So anyway, the lesson is, donât let experts bully you. Test things & ask questions. The good experts will have explanations that make sense and wonât say âitâs complicatedâ
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
Actually, thatâs what I started doing. I started writing internal blog posts to explain things to people. So when he said âitâs complicatedâ junior engineers would say âbut why canât we do X, it solves problems ABCâ and he couldnât respond to that. The veneer was cracking
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
I saved this reply by @lizhagearty because I wanted to write an article about it, about this pattern:
- ânice SIMPLE solution, but you should do this COMPLEX thing insteadâ
- âactually, no the simple thing works perfectly fine, thanksâ (â- rarely do I see this pushback)
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
these Smart Software Engineers are so allergic to copying code that theyâll spend weeks/months on complicated solutions that are impossible to maintain because they didnât want to do something simple/dumb. Something a ânon technicalâ person can do
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
in my field it feels less like 80% were clueless, more like 80% of peoples work could be done with a spreadsheet and high-school math proficiency. so they trick the client and then themselves into thinking they *need* many layers of complexity to compensate
2024-09-26
in my field it feels less like 80% were clueless, more like 80% of peoples work could be done with a spreadsheet and high-school math proficiency. so they trick the client and then themselves into thinking they *need* many layers of complexity to compensate
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
ugh this makes me want to setup a consulting service where all I do is come in and tell you whether your engineers are BS-ing you
this isnât even malicious. Itâs a miscommunication. Engineers LOVE building things, they donât understand why you donât want to BUILD COOL THINGS
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
in my consulting service, you do NOT take my word as âexpert adviceâ. You take my recommendations for questions/things to test, you bring it back to YOUR engineers, and you decide whether Iâm right or not based on what happens next
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
the type of advice I would give you is âask them this. ask them why. ask your junior engineer to prototype it.â you donât need to understand the code, you can see for yourself what theyâre capable of shipping and what theyâre not
Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-09-26
This is the architect â> civil engineer relation. âImpossible to make this structure!â and then you donât know if theyâre telling straight facts or not, because you donât know enough!
Architect Santiago Calatrava was SO real for being âFINE Iâll be the engineer too then!â x.com/DefenderOfBasiâŠ
2024-09-26
This is the architect â> civil engineer relation. âImpossible to make this structure!â and then you donât know if theyâre telling straight facts or not, because you donât know enough!
Architect Santiago Calatrava was SO real for being âFINE Iâll be the engineer too then!â x.com/DefenderOfBasiâŠ
Chip @theMacroChip 2024-09-26
This company sounds dysfunctional and making a secret slack channel isnât helping