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by void_mint 1808 days ago
> If you ask them to make you a bathroom without any waterproofing they'll ask you if you've gone mad and tell you that you NEED waterproofing, because they understand that you don't want your house to rot.

Nowhere did I suggest otherwise.

> I've ever had working with them tell me that they care about understanding.

They care about understanding to complete the task at hand. I have never met a contractor that got emotionally invested in whether the cabinets you picked out were the cabinets of your dreams. I've met many contractors that were, in some ways, invested in the buyer being satisfied with their job, but that's not really the same thing.

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The grandparent said

> I don't care about the project, I care about writing code

this is like the contractor saying they only care about installing cabinets, not helping you model your bathroom.

The point is that you want someone that's going to look at the plan and say "that's going to rot in 2 years", not just do the exact thing requested by the customer and leave

I guess I don't see how "caring about writing code" disqualifies one from caring about the future?