Comment by debt
8 years ago
"they look terrible"
Well then don't do a shitty job? I mean if the budget is there, then yeah, just build me some stairs.
8 years ago
"they look terrible"
Well then don't do a shitty job? I mean if the budget is there, then yeah, just build me some stairs.
This misses OP's point completely--they're talking about the people who will use pieces of cardboard to fill pits in the earth and make the railing way too high because that's how long they happened to cut the boards. In my experience, these have indeed always been the people who hastily say, "Let's just do this!" instead of asking, "What do you have to do here?"
Are you a product manager?
You might be saying this in jest but his statement is totally valid if he is a manager.
The level of abstraction you are working on matters. A manager can't just build a great business either. But for example if he encounters legal trouble, he can just hire lawyers to fix it.
His interface to the world is via delegation to people who can solve his subproblems competently and consistently. There's still a "surprising amount of detail" but at a higher abstraction level and solved with different tools(a really strong "biological" AI that can resolve and prevent the details from bubbling up :P).