This is my experience. It&#x27;s a codependent relationship between management who is unable to determine the feasibility of what it&#x27;s asking for (or, just as often, <i>what</i> it is asking for) on the one hand, and an eager-to-please yes-man of an engineer on the other.<p>Management loves how fast things are delivered, and boyscout loves the pats on the head. The rest of us hate the countdown until the house of cards comes tumbling down.<p>I saw a great tweet some time ago that defined a 10xer as an engineer who accumulates technical debt so fast, it takes 10 engineers to fix their mess. That about sums it up, doesn&#x27;t it?