• intensely_human@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    8 months ago

    So what if you had the capability to be good at that heart pump software, and by not doing it you’re letting in someone who’s not as good as you at it.

    Not trying to trap you or anything, but at a certain point somebody’s gotta do that high stakes stuff.

    Maybe you know you’re not good at that kind of precision stuff, and I respect that. But maybe the difference between you and the guy who did step up to do that work isn’t that he has more skill, but merely less humility.

    Maybe you, the one scared shitless of the ramifications of a mistake, are the one for that job.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      8 months ago

      Maybe. I’ve just shipped too many bugs to prod to trust myself. But you’re right for every senior engineer who is paranoid about that there’s 100 devs who will ship it and then take vacation for a week.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        8 months ago

        Perhaps the reason you ship bugs to prod, is because you know it doesn’t matter. Maybe your bug rate isn’t a pure function of the coding task complexity, but is context-dependent on the goal being coded toward.

        I don’t even know why I’m pushing you on this to be honest. Trust your gut man