I can sum up the entire blog article in a single sentence: I don’t belong in this job because my standards are too high.
I have to overcome this issue with my team often. Most of the time I need terrible code on the market because people are paid so much money that I can’t waste time on the good stuff, only for it to be rejected.
I don’t only design a product “with the end in mind”, I have to design each stage of the software as junk. I design junk - on purpose.
In order to avoid the customer mis-communicating what they want, I spoonfeed them code. For the whole year my team is outputting utter garbage.. and when the garbage works, we re-write to make it look good / better.
That’s why I calculate hours of labor, and then double it. Because when the product is done, it’s not really done. We’re only done complying with the client’s insatiable demands.
I don’t see her standards as “too high.” I see someone who didn’t want to look stupid, so she learned how to program, but realizes it’s not an area of true interest to her, as her heart is simply not in it.
The rest of her words are window dressing.