Tried to wrestle down one of the pernicious rhetorical tactics that's leading teams away from success: https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/ …
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Replying to @slightlylate
"The unstated agreement is that developers share all of the same goals with the same intensity as end users and even managers." - explain what you mean here?
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Replying to @briankardell
End-users have preferences. Developers also have preferences. Those preferences are, by inspection, not identical.
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Replying to @slightlylate
This much is clear, but in the same sentence you say "even managers" this is what I would like clarity on. Are you suggesting that managers align more closely with users than developers?
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Replying to @briankardell
Managers generally aren't dialed in on the tradeoffs being made. A good manager trusts their team's technical instincts and sets rough guidelines. That is, they tend to trust that the team is making good engineering tradeoffs from the same place in the value-tradeoff space.
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
I can't tell you the number of managers I have tried to (hopefully gently) correct when they come face-to-face with their site and think "I _knew_ those engineers were up to no good!" It's a management failure, not primarily an engineering mistake.
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
The goal here has to be to teach managers to put constraints on this aspect of development the same way they cap other costs. Without constraints, there's no "wrong" amount of JS; just apply however much makes it "work".
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Under reasonable constraints, I think we'll look back on the web development in this decade as confused. We've invented incredible prototyping systems that make us feel all-powerful and then forgot they're not production quality.
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Replying to @slightlylate @briankardell
It's the engineering equivalent of that meeting where the PHB gets the design presentation and says "ok, so it's mostly done, right?"
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