I'm surprised so many people here at HN buys the 'Product Guy' crap. My opinion is even more radical than Aaron Harris'.
I'm sick of guys that think they are more important than developers because they use a suit and tie or master some extremely subjective skill while I sit all day and do actual tangible work.
I will not give credibility to anybody to criticize my work if that person haven't been in my shoes. As a developer, the only product guy I would respect is the one that has once been a developer and that would have the skills to sit down and discuss my work from a technical point of view if that would ever be necessary.
Otherwise I reserve myself the right to think that some of the decisions are stupid. Why wouldn't I?
Paul Graham , Bill Gates, John Carmack, Joel Spolsky and many others were (are) programmers they didn't reach their status by 'knowing how to manage people'.
I'm sick of guys that think they are more important than developers because they use a suit and tie or master some extremely subjective skill while I sit all day and do actual tangible work.
I will not give credibility to anybody to criticize my work if that person haven't been in my shoes. As a developer, the only product guy I would respect is the one that has once been a developer and that would have the skills to sit down and discuss my work from a technical point of view if that would ever be necessary. Otherwise I reserve myself the right to think that some of the decisions are stupid. Why wouldn't I?
Paul Graham , Bill Gates, John Carmack, Joel Spolsky and many others were (are) programmers they didn't reach their status by 'knowing how to manage people'.