Tony Morris

I don't think there's much demand for having awesome engineers.

@bitemyapp because it is believed that good enough engineers produce good enough systems?

@alexisgallagher to be satisfied with this means an impoverished imagination on the part of the PMs and executives at the company.

@bitemyapp I think the real error there is it underestimates risk. Routine projects fail, a lot. “Straightforward” is often an illusion.

@alexisgallagher are your risks higher or lower with better programmers?

@bitemyapp right, that’s my claim. The value in “overspending” on quality of engineer is it reduces risks latent even in “easy” projects.

@bitemyapp (this may be delusion. Smarts can just make fancier bugs. E.g., Scalaz?)

@alexisgallagher So use Haskell. Not Scalaz's fault that Scala is awful. They're just making the best of a bad situation.