oh! no, this is a good question and it's a little hard to articulate. the OP was about "elegant code". there is absolutely a trap in holding aesthetic goals above others. but spending the time to fuss with a system until it fits one's mental model extremely well... how is that different, really?

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how you actually assess this from the outside... that's what differentiates exceptional managers from merely good ones (idk what it is).

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But to have an intimate understanding of what’s possible, what’s cheap, and what’s expensive… for me that comes at the expense of a lot of hands on time in the system. It’s not just some property to analyze once.

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I mean that business outcomes have to be shaped by technological reality just as much as the inverse. So as an engineer the task isn’t just to say “yes we can” but to help the business understand the shape of what’s possible

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Flour also doesnt rapidly transform nuclear fusion research which is leading to clean renewable energy that saves the planet. And flour didn't map 250 million human proteins that could revolutionize the development of life saving drugs. Flour doesn't advance math and science and cancer research.

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