Ask HN: Are software engineers unsuited to creating an MVP and lead a startup?

Professional software engineers have deep rooted need to run agile processes, CICD deployment pipelines, Docker based infrastructure, test suites with code coverage, Jira ticketing, documentation etc.

Why? Because that’s exactly what they DO. All this stuff is what professional software engineering IS.

Professional software engineering isn’t writing and application, it’s driving a process, of which one part is coding.

Perhaps the professional software engineer is exactly the wrong person to lead a startup and create an MVP?

Perhaps instead what’s needed is just a hack coder who throws it together?

Maybe founders seeking to find someone to build their application should avoid the software engineer.