alt Hacker News" the engineer’s job is to give them room to work on their own and to build the specs, tests, and merge gates that decide when that work is correct."
I mean that's a job, but in many orgs it's been done by (cheaper) non-engineers (business analysts, QA professionals) for decades. So what does an engineer do?
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niggler3 • yesterday at 9:42 PM
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> for decades
We haven’t. QA has been part of the process but only one stage of the process mentioned above. How do cheaper non engineers decide if you’ve designed and implemented your query planner, payments gateway, auth, caching strategy, or other similar features correctly?
P.s I don’t doubt that incompetent orgs would do this incorrectly but it’s not sensible to take that as norm.