- NIH. If you think it's programmers who primarily suffer from NIH syndrome, check again. Just how many times you end up writing something that's already done because your bosses insist they must have an in-house solution?
- Nonsolving a nonproblem. A lot of code we write is meant to solve a problem that doesn't really exist, is created by stupid decisions higher up the chain, or sometimes just shouldn't be solved in the first place (e.g. tools facilitating an unethical business model).
So yeah, I'm often paid to write code - because the decision that code must be written is made by people above me.
- NIH. If you think it's programmers who primarily suffer from NIH syndrome, check again. Just how many times you end up writing something that's already done because your bosses insist they must have an in-house solution?
- Nonsolving a nonproblem. A lot of code we write is meant to solve a problem that doesn't really exist, is created by stupid decisions higher up the chain, or sometimes just shouldn't be solved in the first place (e.g. tools facilitating an unethical business model).
So yeah, I'm often paid to write code - because the decision that code must be written is made by people above me.