Yeah, but when you let the bean counters make engineering decisions it is all about cost and nothing about value.
So when you are actually engineering tangible real world items (eg cars and buildings) that have substantial embodied energy "over engineering" can sometimes actually mean making something of long term quality and value that lasts past fashion and trend.
Yes, a lot. I feel that I'm doing it more often now. I'm 5-year exp. now, and the unexpected expectation of ensuring that it should be self-sustainable in the future is making me spend more time in even small thing, which is definitely over-engineering.
Often meeting goes like,
Person 1 - this should do it
P2 - But if we do that, that will also cover that2 in future
P1, P3 - Make sense, let's do it.
P4 - We should also do that3.
All - Lets put up our points on a Doc, and discuss it again tomorrow. We shouldn't build something which we have to revisit in the future, it will be a waste of time otherwise.
I also feel that spending a lot of time reading Uber/Netflix blogs (or similar stuff) is not what I should do, for an hour, first thing in the morning.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 25.3 ms ] threadI think when we are shielded from harsh realities of the market. We build something we want and consider cool. Not something that is useful.
So when you are actually engineering tangible real world items (eg cars and buildings) that have substantial embodied energy "over engineering" can sometimes actually mean making something of long term quality and value that lasts past fashion and trend.
Often meeting goes like,
Person 1 - this should do it
P2 - But if we do that, that will also cover that2 in future
P1, P3 - Make sense, let's do it.
P4 - We should also do that3.
All - Lets put up our points on a Doc, and discuss it again tomorrow. We shouldn't build something which we have to revisit in the future, it will be a waste of time otherwise.
All agree, adjourned.
(P1 to Pn are interchangeable)