[lolive]

How does an engineer know that he is involved in a bozo-driven PoC or in a technical deathtrap that will end up as the core business of the company?

[kube-system]

Again, by communicating. If someone doesn't know what they are building, who they are building it for, and why -- then they do not have a solid grasp of the requirements.

[lolive]

Never saw a subcontracting requirement document, stating "the solution is for a bozo-project. so don't spend ages making it robust for the future"

[marcosdumay]

Oh, that's easy. Can you point any real person waiting to use the thing?

In fact, that's probably the easiest question to answer on this entire discussion.