[moomoo11]

That chef analogy doesn’t work.

In any high end restaurant the menu is determined and then there’s a hierarchy of people who “implement” whatever dish.

The engineers are the line people. They’re not setting vision and they’re not doing anything beyond shipping code which is arguably like 10% of running a business, even if it’s a “tech business”.

[proc0]

Sure, you're just adding resolution to the example. If restaurants worked like many software companies, the chefs and cooks are still cooking and dealing with the food, but also running the food, taking the order, and cleaning the kitchen, while the owners decide on the menu and who gets to cook what food.