Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)

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[-] Prox@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

This was a great read! Been a long time since I saw satire this on-point.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

it's just such a perfect allegory for how practically every startup out there works

[-] UniversalFlamingo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Not just startups, my dude. It's big-ass enterprise too.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

also true

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

I was in this story in a past life. I've been most of the engineering roles it feels. Luigi is the worst one to be stuck in.

After this job, Luigi tried to get out of the oven business but in every interview after this, "oh you've worked on ovens? Nice, we have a few oven problems to solve here. "

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

God that hits close to home.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

nice

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