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This, right here is the problem with our industry. Someone has a brain wave and asks a [set of] hardworking engineer(s) to 'make it happen yesterday'. Engineers toil away and bring out something useful by making all possible hacks since yesterday has already passed. Early engineers get frustrated and leave only to be replaced with some more hardworking engineers who now have to clean up the mess, keep the lights on _and_ implement the next brain wave that the idea man came up with. The problem is, a lot of 'thinkers' are becoming entrepreneurs - most of them have no idea about the complexities or intricacies of software or those who wrote code so long ago that they largely worked on monoliths and have absolutely no idea how complex systems work together 'in the cloud'. We need more 'builders' (engineers) as entrepreneurs. It'll invariably lead to people working on more sensible, real world problems that need real solutions - since, hopefully, builders would know what it takes to build out something and won't waste resources on frivolous and ill thought out ideas.


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