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  • Communication ≠ politics.

    Communication in engineering should rely on empirical data not personal opinion or vibes.

    The post above only has one sentence where they make a unsupported claim that being involved in politics was necessary to have completed the feature.

    The bridge example is to show that personal opinion has no place in projects and that workers should not capitulate to their superiors when they determine unsafe situations are occuring. The “shoddy bolt my boss designed” would be a stand in for whatever crummy practice people are being political about in a software project. From a shitty tech stack to bad project management practices.

    Ego and politics is the death of a project.


  • Politics has no place in engineering disciplines. Imagine if we talked about building bridges like this. “Sorry your entire family died when the bridge failed. My boss has an ego and we have to use the shitty bolts he designed. I’m just doing my job”

    Granted not all projects carry this degree of risk but we shouldn’t normalize sub standard practice. Long term risk is generated by bad code which can be and often is detrimental to the profitablity of a project. One of your jobs as a software developer is to be able to communicate this effectively with management. There are cost implications to churning out shitty code.

    Bad form > poor product > unsatisfied users > loss in sales to competitors