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> When I was a younger developer I thought tooling solved all problems. As I grew more experience I slowly changed my mind that some problem spaces require not
by sdfghswe 3y ago
> When I was a younger developer I thought tooling solved all problems. As I grew more experience I slowly changed my mind that some problem spaces require not only tooling but process change.
Lets take it one step further.
You start out thinking everything is tooling. As you grow more experienced you realize that everything is process. As you grow more experienced still, you realize that the world is really messy and rarely ever anything is everything.
- infecto 3y agoOf course the world is messy and there are many variables. I still sit in the camp that documentation is a human problem that requires both tooling and process. I wish Outline luck but on the documentation side, its largely a human/process one.
- flappyeagle 3y ago> both tooling and process so better tooling helps then?
- infecto 3y agoSure? The problem is largely a human/company culture/process problem and sure tooling can help remove friction but it does not fix the larger problem.