I recently spoke to a businessman about his project. He'd handed it off to a couple of programming teams and the result was the same each time.

Failure.

Every software engineer wants to be the one who can do what another guy can't, so I asked to so see the writeup describing his project.

I was shocked. Maybe that wasn't it. I was bemused.

Episode link: https://taprun.com/articles/business-of-programming