If programmers dictated how software worked:
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Every piece of software would be 100k on disk, execute at warp speed, run on everything from a stopwatch to a supercomputer.
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Said program would take 10 years to develop, because “I’m close to getting it finished.”
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Said program would be so obscure and hard-to-use that even its author would create an script file to execute it
If managers dictated how software worked:
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Everything would be one big chart or powerpoint slide (less than 3 bullets!).
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It would take 2 minutes to deliver, complete, from a napkin drawing that the managers had over their 5th power lunch in 1 week
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It’d be programmed by pond scum from Rhodesia, which replaced the rodents from Norway, which replaced the too-expensive chimpanzees from Zanzibar
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There’d be a rule that no bugs or customer complaints can be solved until after their next promotion