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There's little evidence that this is a common problem.


Besides the graveyard of failed start-ups? There's plenty of evidence, just no strong conclusions.


Did you look at the graveyard of failed start-ups and conclude they would of lived if they had enough non-coding overhead?


I look at it and see just as many failed start-ups from engineer-founders as a do from non-engineer founders. The idea that being a programmer makes you better to run a business has nothing to back it up.


I'm not sure where this idea comes from though, it's not something I argued. The post I replied to claims engineers can't see the big picture and deal with end user requirements, and your own testimony above contradicts that.


there is in meta.

Userneed is very much second to company priority metrics.


I wouldn’t say this lends to a bias of over-engineering but more so psc optimizing




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