Notices by Twirrim (twirrim@mastodon.social)

@eribosot years ago the software devs in Amazon used to complain about the elevators. Eventually Amazon got so tired of it they somehow arranged with the elevator company to come on-site for a hackathon weekend, during which devs would attempt to produce a more optimal algorithm. Unsurprisingly they failed. Turns out that elevator companies know what they're doing.

At least it finally got the devs to shut up about the damn elevators.

@malwaretech it's usually hard to internalise that advice to a sufficient degree to be practical, more just helps you eventually realise what they were communicating, hopefully before too late.