[stasomatic]

I skimmed the article, guilty, but I think what I got from it is that CEOs will CEO? No disrespect meant, I’ve seen your name here often and thoroughly enjoy the folklore that you share, but I don’t understand what context you reacted to. Cheers.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

The context that they think that shipping is simple. Shipping (what you need all those annoying peons for) is really terribly difficult, and has a lot of moving parts that designers often fail to take into account, until the deployment people lock them into a restroom stall, and refuse to let them out, unless they listen.

That's common with newer engineers (and now, non-engineers). I believe that Mr. Dunning, and Mr. Kruger had something to say about it.

I also spent most of my career at hardware-oriented companies, and shipping hardware is orders of magnitude more difficult than shipping software.

[stasomatic]

Thank you. You spent some time at Apple, no? There is that “real artists ship” or “great artists steal”, but I wonder what he’d say now. Just fun to think about.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Not as an employee, but I've been an Apple developer since '86. Had fairly intimate relationships with them, at various points in my career.