
Should Engineers Have a Say in Product Strategy—or Just Ship Tickets?
The Programmer in the Cave is Dead (But Nobody Told Most Teams) There’s a mental model that’s been haunting tech companies for decades. You know the one: the brilliant programmer, isolated in their cave, receives a ticket, implements the solution exactly as specified, and ships it. Clean. Transactional. Utterly pointless. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: if that’s how your engineering team operates, you’re leaving massive amounts of money on the table. Not because engineers aren’t shipping code—they are....



