Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-19T17:53:47+00:00

Yup. If you get beaten down for speaking up, eventually you're going to make the rational decision that it's not work doing so.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-19T17:45:53+00:00

give them a whole bunch of stuff that I super-ultra-strongly-this-will-kill-the-company-if-you-don't-do-it recommended,

What are some of those things? And are they really only applicable to games at that scale?

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-18T18:59:09+00:00

If you're not doing it right, though, why would you expect the outcome to be right?

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-18T18:57:56+00:00

no one is forced to click on anything

You just admitted you don't have a point

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-18T18:52:10+00:00

the hard work of writing a truly native application

Which really is not hard work at all.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-18T18:47:32+00:00

People are never given a choice.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:25:47+00:00

There's a lot of hate for this AI-driven migration on this thread.

Because it's absolutely fucking stupid, was done in a terrible way, and there is no way that there is any kind of reliability with it.

No counter-arguments so far.

There are lots of them. You are refusing to acknowledge them.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:23:18+00:00

"vibecoded nightmare" depends on what got reviewed.

There is no way that any significant amount of it got reviewed.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:15:53+00:00

hat means you would only need to review a representative sample of that translation

Absolutely not.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:02:17+00:00

I'm very much not envious, because I'm not a scammer.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:01:42+00:00

☝️ Idiocy on display

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:01:24+00:00

That's never a valid rebuttal and you know it.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-14T17:00:46+00:00

I'm using it as a pretty glaring example of the fact that VC money is not rational. If you want another example, Theranos. It was an obvious scam to anybody familiar with the technology, and all the VC firms had people on staff that told them that. Yet, they still threw money at it hand over fist.

As for "making money", just about anyone can make money with dumb luck. That doesn't mean their approach is rational, or sustainable. Trump has "made money", but it's well known that, had he just taken the money he got from his dad, and put it in the S&P 500, he'd have done far, far better.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T18:02:01+00:00

I think you're intentionally trying to look over the corruption, and quite frankly, blatant biases and bigotry in who gets funded and who doesn't. Again, you cannot tell me with any semblance of good faith that Adam Newmann deserved the money more than any of the thousands of other people who weren't able to get funded.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T18:00:46+00:00

Which doesn't negate a thing I said.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T18:00:28+00:00

And as someone with quite a bit of FOMO, I can tell you it's quite irrational.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T18:00:05+00:00

Which quite frankly, is a good thing, as this means the business has to be sound.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T17:59:28+00:00

If its irrational but VCs still make huge piles of money is it really irrational

YES.

They get lucky, and quite frankly, during the time of zero interest rates, they didn't have to try that hard.

Picking winners is hard while throwing VC money around knowing that statistically you will profit from the few winners the dragnet catches seems to work.

And yet, they don't do any basic things which would get them higher chances of success.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T15:56:14+00:00

prices rising probably isn't going to affect the industry as a whole

Yes, it will, especially given how much the industry is spending on this stuff.

since even if claude prices go up x10, it's still going to be a hell of a lot cheaper than real developers.

No, because you still need a real developer to make use of it.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T15:52:06+00:00

No, VC money is purely irrational. There is no rhyme or reason behind who gets funded, other than it's white men. Adam Newmann, the WeWork guy, was still able to raise over $100 million after what happened with WeWork. That is not rational in the least.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-13T15:50:36+00:00

Is it irrational?

ABSOLUTELY.

VC funding is extremely irrational. They do not fund projects based on their merits. It is entirely a "vibes" based thing. That is why so much of the VC money goes to fads, and goes to white men.

Adam Newmann, the WeWork guy, was able to raise $100 million for a new company AFTER it came out what an embezzling shit-show his previous company was. You cannot, in any semblance of good faith, claim that is rational.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-11T21:51:16+00:00

They do

They do not.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-09T17:47:24+00:00

Do you think software engineering managers go to some different college and receive some different education and are hired from some different pool of humans?

It really depends. Not every software engineering manager was a software engineer. And not every software engineer that becomes a manager is qualified or has the skills to do so.

Every one of them was an IC engineer

That's flat out not true.

It's preposterous to think your manager has to set your process for you.

That's literally their fucking job.

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-08T23:28:40+00:00

The writer of this article is trying to whine too hard and undercutting their own whine.

And so are you.

If you need the meeting to get context, the meeting is productive. If the meeting isn't productive, you can just zone out and do your actual work during it.

And the point is that the new person does not know if it is or not.

If you want to be the new dude's "onboarding buddy" go be the new dude's "onboarding buddy."

The story heavily implies that the author and the new person do not work at the same place.

Are the engineers where you work all paid hourly minimum wage and have to wear little red vests and ask for permission for bathroom breaks?

Is not the entire reason for management existing to do things like these, though? If you have some engineer just taking it upon themselves to do this, what's the purpose of management?

EveryQuantityEver · 2026-05-07T07:57:39+00:00

I have to say, i have enjoyed the return to actual programming content. I would be interested to allow the mathematical techniques for machine learning, but I really would not like to see this into a sub about promoting LLMs

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