These comments seem to make a gloriously meta confirmation of the article's point. The article is saying that engineers (among others) have been known to optimise for the wrong thing. He uses a possibly inappropriate example of faster dishwashers.
Then many of the commenters (quite likely engineers) optimise their comments on the thing they know about -- desirability or otherwise of faster dishwashers -- rather than considering the merits of the main thesis
And it's made even better by some commenters saying things about areas they appear not to know about, like the desirability of faster dishwashers for restaurants
Then many of the commenters (quite likely engineers) optimise their comments on the thing they know about -- desirability or otherwise of faster dishwashers -- rather than considering the merits of the main thesis
And it's made even better by some commenters saying things about areas they appear not to know about, like the desirability of faster dishwashers for restaurants