> What was notable, though, was his immediate willingness to write that feature. Maybe I'm lazy, but I'd sit there and think of half a dozen other ways to do it before settling on changing the module itself.

Look, your soldiers have got to be ready to fight. Your soldiers probably need to like to fight. It may not be an inherently good quality but it is a necessary quality for someone who has it for their job.

It is the generals' job to think lazily and devise ways to avoid fighting when unnecessary and to make each fight as brutish and short as possible; and it is your job to do that with solutioning.

I get paid well to be the type of person who will spend hours investigating a possibly ephemeral, possibly nonexistent bug, and my product manager gets paid well to prevent me from doing that whenever the business has other priorities.