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Software engineers are uniquely qualified to analyze supply chains and supply chain problems. In this case, technical analysis looks a whole lot different than the chicken bone divination stuff you see with thinkorswim or other trading platforms...



Software engineers are uniquely qualified to analyze supply chains and supply chain problems.

You’re going to have to qualify that. I’ve been doing this shit for thirty years, including writing logistics and other supply chain software. Do not prioritize my opinion just because I write software; prioritize the opinions of, oh I don’t know, maybe COOs? The buyer for electronic parts at my employer? Anyone, anyone but software engineers so arrogant that they think they have an opinion worthy of listening simply because... hell, I can’t even guess why a software engineer would think that.


Agreed. The worst thing about software engineers is how smug and arrogant we can be. I think it's just an astounding ignorance of other fields and how they're no less complicated or filled with smart people than ours is.


> Software engineers are uniquely qualified to analyze supply chains and supply chain problems.

Care to substantiate it? Why? At the very least businesspeople should be more qualified because that's what they deal with? Just because software engineers have to think for a living and do some math sometimes doesn't mean they are experts in every field where that is used...




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