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While I see what you're saying, there is a reason why these articles keep popping up, and that's because this "product-minded engineer" IS an actual role that is essential to devel…

They will probably not be an extremely deep expert into specific technologies, and they will burn out on doing work that does not involve improving the product for actual users. Th…

Not OP, but I do all those things at a company with 4 engineers. I have only met a couple (as in 2 or 3) engineers that I estimate would be capable of doing most of those things, b…

Exactly. And then the trick becomes scoping and problem selection. You can't solve everything after all!

You might be right. I do like my title more than yours though, it's more catchy! Regarding your point however, I think you might have missed my point by a little bit, so I'll try t…

Yes you're right. But next to making money, a lot of us are also doing our best to do something valuable and worthwhile. It's just an attempt to get people to think in a slightly d…

I should have really used the latter...

You might have a point. The article was written to be thought provocative, to make people consider what they are doing. The actual underlying issue however is that finding and iden…

I'm not arguing about creating valuation on the market for founders. There are plenty of ways, on a sliding moral scale, to create a high valuation. I don't care about that. I argu…

I'm afraid you then might have missed my point by a little bit. Let me try and clarify. I think new technologies are awesome. But I think you shouldn't look at a technology and ask…