alt Hacker NewsSome of this post reminds me of a story I heard long ago from someone who had worked at a HW/SW company. They’d transferred an engineer from the ASIC design team to the OS kernel team, though he’d never been on a software team before. After a while the manager called him in for the following conversation:
Manager: You’re doing amazing work — zero bugs in production! I’d like you to mentor the other SWEs on how to get their bug count down too.
Engineer: We’re allowed to have bugs?
Funny story but in my experience hardware engineers produce some of the worst software of the industry. Of course there must be some hardware engineers out there who do hood software but generally what they build are disasters.