[tansan]

These type of stories are a humbling reminder that PMF always beats engineering excellence

[zarathustreal]

Well that depends entirely on what you consider to be the goal - as a software engineer, your role is entirely concerned with engineering excellence. As a member of a team, especially a team of extremely highly paid and highly educated individuals, it is your duty to spend your time (and thus, the company’s resources) efficiently by doing what you’re educated, qualified, and hired to do.

[jahewson]

Engineering excellence is a means to an end. Great engineers solve problems - sometimes by writing software.

[williamdclt]

Few people agree that the goal of SWE is engineering excellence. It is to solve business problems. Engineering excellence is a means to a goal: to be able to solve _difficult_ problems _correctly_ and allow solving new problems _in the future_. All these things can be traded off, and sometimes aren’t even needed at all