> Attract bright engineers and waste their potential. Undersell the difficulty of the project to management; oversell the project’s usefulness. Tell management it’s “almost complete” until they scrap it.
People at every level of the organization, from the top-down, have done this since forever. The -10x engineer will choose a language that they're fascinated by, but have no production experience with, and then spend most of the budget building libraries that they assumed already existed in the ecosystem. "Almost complete" becomes "almost ready to start".
The desire to add $TECHNOLOGY to run a relatively small site even though it will likely never scale beyond what a single postgres instance running on a mac mini can handle.
Unbelievably frustrating to be a junior or mid level engineer working with a senior dev who does this, watching it happen, maybe even arguing back and being overruled.
People at every level of the organization, from the top-down, have done this since forever. The -10x engineer will choose a language that they're fascinated by, but have no production experience with, and then spend most of the budget building libraries that they assumed already existed in the ecosystem. "Almost complete" becomes "almost ready to start".