Maybe it's just me but I'm more tempted to trust engineers who's day-to-day job is engineering rather then a Youtuber who replaces vowels with letters.
But strawman/direct attacks aside.
In my experience when one engineer is disagreeing with a team of engineers, they're wrong or the team a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem they're working to solve.
>I trust any engineer who responds with an “it depends..” over someone who has an absolute answer.
That heuristic matches on the hordes of liars who try and sound smart while hedging their claims with a liberal application of weasel words to avoid being provably wrong. And those people outnumber the "good engineers" probably by at least an order of magnitude...
> So I get funny looks when I suggest that engineers should go talk to people in the business, and write design docs.
I've gotten more than funny looks. They get downright mean or irritated, because to them it sounds like you're trying to take their job away.
Remember, these are the people who bring the requirements to the engineers.They have people skills! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso
>Of course, I'm also baffled that people credit him as being a 'builder'
I'm on the other hand baffled that so many here are willing to spout off opinions like this without even so much as having listened to the man talk. He is _clearly_ an engineer's engineer.
This topic really highlights the people who form their entire mental model of reality around news headlines.
Definitely, and if you read my original comment, I defended the engineer because he wasn't using the title as a deception or in soliciting business. Though he was potentially commenting outside his realm of expertise.
> A senior engineer should make evidence based decisions, as should any engineer.
... sooo there is no distinction between a senior engineer and a non-senior engineer? you've really said nothing in this comment.
senior engineers have seen enough things to know what the right solution is in many cases, without having to take a bunch of time to collect evidence. that's what makes them senior, not just 'good'.
> Idk why this keeps getting tied back to paid/unpaid
i was responding to a comment about engineering ethics. engineering is a profession. engineering ethics is taught to student engineers in the context of a job, where you're getting paid. taking the (literal classroom) lessons out of context distorts them.
if you go back to your engineering ethics professors and say "gee, but what if i do this work for fun and just stick it up on a web page on the internet", they're going to look at you like you're insane, and then not know what to say.
> If I build something in real life
the last thing this thread needs is more analogies.
Even if those engineers clearly have a financial incentive to make biased claims?
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