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To answer your question, it's because the article isn't written well

I got it instantly. Maybe because I also am one of those people who go around finding problems in the product that are seemingly invisible to the product manager, team lead, CEO, etc.

It IS hard to try to explain an alien concept to someone when you yourself in fact understand it.

Well at least you don't call it "inventing work," right? I'm on a platform team too, would cause a lot of wtfs if someone said that in a meeting.

I also don't think it's excusable to say it's hard for others to understand. The good SWEs I've worked with knew how to explain what they do to partner teams.

It's clearly tongue in cheek to address the misconception that this is what engineers do

I've called it "do the right thing, wait to get fired". That's not my invention though :P

Which is deeply ironic, given the content.

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