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by nacozarina 167 days ago
Creating the code was never the hard part. Not ever.

Here’s the hard part. Listening to workers describe their work process, artifacts created & outcomes achieved. To really learn their world. It’s understanding where their current tools & collaborators are awkwardly aligned. It’s about you learning minutiae of your client’s organizational & emotional baggage. It’s about navigating & resolving the forty different versions of truth they tell you. It’s about you doing this over breakfast & dinner for them for months. Years, if you are any good at it.

Generating code was never the hard part, welcome to the engineering team.

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This! Offering a "$5k 24h prototype" is like trying to sell a $500 WordPress theme at a pitch for "Amazon new website" - both expensive for what it is and orders of magnitude below what's required.