Business folks, as I read this Reddit thread, I worry about this being an issue for a new project/business I'm working on.I had developers (who I recently let go) who were producing bad output. I think a lot of it was they never actually tried the code they made. They didn't run it and use it, so what they designed and built was either broken or "technically working" but not usable.Do you have this issue? Do you think there are approaches to addressing it?This is one issues that doesn't happen in the FLOSS world, which has its own problems, but "Developer doesn't use product" isn't one of them.old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/#programming #business #development #AskFedi

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@serge Interesting, when I am doing any kind of coding, I consider the running and testing bit the work part. I guess some people would try to avoid that and assume their “math” works for all cases without testing. Actually, I’m certain that’s what it is. I have seen it happen repeatedly in various workplaces (coding or not). Invariably, something does change at some point, but not always with the intended results in mind.P.S. - I also firmly believe that the standards applied within a business, the engineers amongst themselves, and without, the customer-facing aspects are very different. There are all sorts of useful little programs for inside a business that an engineer can easily navigate or repair, but it’s never polished in the same way as something we would expect our closest technically inept relative would understand. The Reddit post seems to really touch on this reality.

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