Why Are Developers So Grumpy?

I say Polipo (https://www.polipo.io/) is a developer tool.

I am wrong.

Polipo interacts with the software core tech.

This makes it belong to deep tech (like Vercel).

This is also why the technology gets vetted by software engineers.

Reactions from…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Giovanni Proietta

I say Polipo (https://www.polipo.io/) is a developer tool.

I am wrong.

Polipo interacts with the software core tech.

This makes it belong to deep tech (like Vercel).

This is also why the technology gets vetted by software engineers.

Reactions from them greatly differ.

But there is one thing that always gets me.

Some of the objections imply the following assumption:

"A machine CANNOT do better than me."

A fallacy in disguise.

To which I reply with this visualization exercise I propose here.

Visualize the total global population of software engineers with front-end tasks.

Now,Polipo can optimize (as of today, keep this in mind) the performance of a web app better than the first 50% of that distribution.

To this visualization the majority of software engineers reply:

"Yes, but I can do it better."

And this is why we cannot have nice things.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Giovanni Proietta


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