spimmy

ha! ok, i never thought of it quite like that.

just made this exact same point myself, lower in this thread. (author here)

yes! love this. and many great engineers will go back to being "good engineers" as they pick up new skills. rinse and repeat++

i think it has to start with having engineering managers and directors who are deeply technical themselves. the idea that you can split up this work into "managers do the people stuff" and "engineers do the technical stuff" is bananas. it's all sociotechnical work.

this is why i advocate the engineer/manager pendulum so strongly. we get better results when management has strong tech skills (and staff+ engineers have organizational skills as well).

well obviously there's a ton of variance here. but in the type of engineering i'm most familiar with, any sizable amount of production services or surface layer being owned by a single person is a bad thing.

individuals can get sick, go on vacation, etc. having it be owned by a team creates resiliency from a people perspective.

oh wow i missed that, thank you!

many fair points here <3

idk, avoiding landmines seems like pretty significant business impact

because there is, by definition, an extremely limited supply of the "best engineers in the world". if you can afford to pay top-10% salaries, and attract and retain top-10% engineers, more power to you.

maybe not literally "any asshole" can do it -- but it certainly asks more of your leaders to craft sociotechnical systems oriented towards learning and enablement. and i don't think that's a bad thing.

i'm struggling to see how what you are saying you value is any different from what i am saying i value (author here).

Word.

insightful; cosign. (i wrote the piece)

This is a good insight, but they already have a therapist. :) (I am the author)

Excited to see this!! Very much on board with this sort of approach to the future -- wide, structured logs, a balance between machines doing the heavy lifting + humans adding intent to the signal. Also VERY excited to see honeycomb customers already popping up in the comments .. i can't wait to see what these tools can do together.

jesus christ ok