alt Hacker NewsYeah and they’re typically fired for incompetence, or their startup fails, or their product flounders but that’s okay because the company doesn’t need the product to actually be successful.
Meanwhile, the people who work on actual products that matter have a valid criticism that can’t be dismissed with “some humans don’t even manage to do that.”
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danbruc • today at 1:43 PM
If you would fire all incompetent [1] software developers, there would be almost nobody left.
[1] There is probably a more fitting word, I am just reusing incompetence here, but that is not a really fitting description, I think. I would maybe say carelessness or something like that, but a single word is not going to capture the issue accurately.
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The dirty secret is there's a lot of people employed to do things that are not "products that matter" according to your definition.