Engineers like to experiment and we get the benefit of learning from their experiences. Not sure why you’re upset.

ambicapter 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe it's the "me first" mindset you're bringing to engineering?

ams92 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This sounds more like a 5 month POC that the engineer should have been able to prove sooner that DucksDB didn’t fit the use case.

	▲	roboben an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Author here. We went past the POC stage to actually make real customer workloads work, which we did. Probably yes, we spent too much time not rethinking our approach but sunken cost fallacy so that's why.

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weego 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, mostly it just comes off as egregious self-indulgence to try one thing and then jump to "we built the solution ourselves!" when the problem is not novel at all. These things are just tiresome.

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antonvs an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Engineers like to experiment

The job of management is to help manage that. Typically, the desire to experiment is constrained to lab environments and so on. Experimenting on your actual users carries a lot of risks - to product stability, customer relations, market perception, etc.