Engineers should be able to explain any customer-facing system they have shipped and defend the decisions they made.

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• What engineers will stay valuable for is being answerable for a system — the named person who decides what ships, what is blocked and what is deferred, whoever or whatever wrote the code. AOAddy Osmani19 Aug 2026
• Listening to customers is invaluable, but you should not build the thing they asked you for. CPColin Percival1 Sept 2025
• There is no point arguing about whether or when engineers will ship code they have not read; the only useful question is what it would take. CMCharity Majors12 Aug 2026
• Needing forward deployed engineers because a product is too hard to use on its own is a bad sign. JAJen Abel23 Aug 2026
• Founders are better off being reminded of the basics again and again: talk to users, ship earlier, get more feedback, and hold a higher bar for hiring. SASam Altman23 Aug 2026

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