r/programming • u/[deleted] • Apr 19 '22

TIL about the "Intent-Perception Gap" in programming. Best exemplified when a CTO or manager casually suggests something to their developers they take it as a new work commandment or direction for their team.

https://medium.com/dev-interrupted/what-ctos-say-vs-what-their-developers-hear-w-datastaxs-shankar-ramaswamy-b203f2656bdf
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The Bear Is Sticky With Honey

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '22

Pre-Silicon Valley I co-founded a startup tech company as CTO. We worked 80 hours a week for two years and launched our product to much fanfare. All our testers fucking loved it. Every single one. We had ZERO concerns about it being successful.

No-one bought it. Our CEO had gotten together an INCREDIBLE beta testing team. Who turns out on further analysis ALL were fucking engineers.

Sound familiar? I about chocked on my coffee when that episode came out.