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On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 15:58:17 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:55:56 +0200, D wrote:
>> 
>>> For the customer it is great, and brings a lot of technical
>>> credibility to the deal. For the technologist it is also great,
>>> because they get first hand experience with the problems of the
>>> customer and I have seen that it changes how they think about what
>>> they do.
>> 
>> I've worked closely with a couple of clients but in general it's not a
>> good idea to let programmers talk to the clients. Programmers don't
>> have very good filters.
>> 
>> 
> Give them an idea and programmers are likely to go off into the wild
> blue yonder. “I wonder what would happen if we used AI for this
> problem?” or whatever the programmer’s favorite technology of the month
> is.

Well, yeah, what fun is doing the same old thing?  I tasked a new 
programmer with a stand alone interface to see how he would perform. I 
didn't really expect to have a Go project in our source tree but so it 
goes. It joined the C, C++, C#, Fortran, Python, Java, and Javascript 
code. I'm not sure if it was ever deleted but there might even be some 
Tcl/Tk.