Speed vs. stability: the divide between product and engineering

Excellent article. I want to frame this and ship copies of it to every person I know in tech who is burned out and lost their passion for their projects.

You’ve highlighted a stark problem in any industry that needs tech to make it work: the visionary and the work producer (coder, designer, etc.) are often not on the same page.

Coders are working for a paycheck rather than building the things they want to build.

Or maybe they never actually wanted to build anything themselves, not everyone is a creative and that is okay, we need engineers who just lay things out…and are into the structure but they’re wanting to work on a Picasso and the production team is handing them a crude drawing and demanding “MAKE THIS ART!”

You could have the technological equivalent of Frank Lloyd Wright working in your studio and be asking him to design 1400 square foot suburban tract homes over and over again. His soul slowly dies. He may not have the concept for the luxury mansion himself: he just knows this isn’t it.

So to the drolls in the dead end jobs, I ask this: what do you REALLY want to code today, and what is your project manager missing that you see but can’t speak up about?

(And if you have no answer to either of those things, my next question would be, why are you here then?)

-The Court Jester of Vibe Code