[leobakerhytch]

Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree with the article’s main assertion, that startups need product engineers who think about more than just code. Engineers who can make decisions for the benefit of the customer, and ultimately the business.

This is all the more reason to delegate responsibilities, rather than tasks (as argued in Little Tasks, Little Trust [0]), so programmers actually get the necessary experience with UX, design, interacting with customers, etc., and exposure to the consequences of what they build, in order to grow into full-fledged product engineers.

I fear though that such roles, and consequently such engineers, are few and far between.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25346460

[veebuv]

Thanks so much for sharing the above, I really loved the thesis and approach.

Fully agree to the process, delegating tasks is a bandaid approach that still has bottlenecks