Comment by Blackthorn
6 hours ago
It is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.
6 hours ago
It is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.
What fields do you see devs think they know about? I’ve never personally seen this with other devs I work with but obviously small sample size…
In my experience, product. There’s a pervasive view that product is easy, that anyone working in it is a dunderhead who gets in the way of engineers doing the really worthwhile work. In reality, it would just mean they rewrite the software five times and have zero customers.
Oh, design too. I’ve met many engineers who simply don’t see any value in design.
This. I'm a former teacher. I left to get a PhD in educational psychology, and now I'm a data scientist for a large school division. The number of ed tech companies I interact with who clearly have little grasp of research-based best practices in education is staggering. But they can all build slick-looking websites and dashboards.
find any econ related post on hn et voila
I don't think it is much of a problem that dabblers get into Internet arguments about things they are not experts in. After all the easiest way to get a correct answer/learn something is to say something wrong.
Of course this should be differentiated from a professional setting.
And under no circumstances should we put that stuff into the knowledge bases we base our "AI" on without making sure it takes into account the context.
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