This post highlights a deeper reason many people choose engineering: they want to build good things. Engineers who care about the craft get bothered by bad code.
But management optimises for profit and speed. When engineers are treated as a commodity, control ends up with management, and they use it to push for delivery over long term quality.
Engineers who think more like managers are not “impure engineers.” They just understand the trade off between cleaning up bad code and getting a project across the finish line.
This is amazing! I have been using Emacs for development for well over a year and things like this remind me of the incredible power Emacs has to offer.
But management optimises for profit and speed. When engineers are treated as a commodity, control ends up with management, and they use it to push for delivery over long term quality.
Engineers who think more like managers are not “impure engineers.” They just understand the trade off between cleaning up bad code and getting a project across the finish line.