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0 pointsbrundolf5y ago0 comments

I posted under another comment, but this to me is a software-literacy problem. You shouldn't have to hire an engineer to fix or adjust business rules in 2021. Period. The people who know the domain should be able to maintain (and really, create) any automation of that domain themselves.

This is partly a failure of education, partly a failure of organizational structuring, and partly a failure of software accessibility. But it's a gargantuan failure all the same.

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cynoclast5y ago

>The people who know the domain should be able to maintain (and really, create) any automation of that domain themselves.

This is a recipe for disaster 100% of the time. One needs to know both the domain and software to change software in the domain. People who 'know the domain' but not software, when given the tools to modify software within the domain inevitably create an unmaintainable rats nest of more difficult to change rules, almost invariably in some proprietary WYSYWIG tool that creates more problems than it solves.

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0 pointsbrundolf5y ago0 comments

This is partly a failure of education, partly a failure of organizational structuring, and partly a failure of software accessibility. But it's a gargantuan failure all the same.

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cynoclast5y ago

>The people who know the domain should be able to maintain (and really, create) any automation of that domain themselves.

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