The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
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The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization
Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers:
Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical industrial work, which is why there's a lot of people who have tried to put $1 billion dollars into software but it hasn't resulted in high quality software.
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The thing is, once it's clear what to do, the technical parts may be challenging, but they're pretty much achievable. What's really complicated is everything that happens before that. Before there's a working piece of software, a bunch of people need to communicate through different languages, since there are only humans in between the customer and... See more