Hahaha that's what frontend devs think, but the backend requirements are just as vague: "Just make this button work". In my example all the requirements would actually be figured out bit by bit over months, nevermind the prescience required to foresee future architecture-breaking features or scaling requirements. At least you can make a mockup and get instant feedback, flawed as it is.

On either side it takes experienced engineers to suss out actual requirements from customers/PMs. The main difference is that the backend (especially on the infra/devops side) is only accountable to itself if everything goes well, but ironically that means no-one knows or cares about the amount of engineering that goes into keeping PMs blissfully ignorant of the risks and complexity.

[–] RonSijm 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hahaha that’s what frontend devs think

Hahah, well as a primarily backend developer, that's what I think as well.

“Just make this button work”

If that button doesn't work, that sounds like a frontend problem to me.. ;)

But yea, as you mentioned, it probably comes down to experience. As the meme from this post depicts. When I dabble in frontend and make a WinForm for my devtool, people just look at me and are like "Uhhh, can you make it better?"

No sir, clearly I can not. And I have no idea what you mean with "better".