Ex-Apple engineer on secret project: being right wasn't enough, persuasion is an engineering skill
jdluk87 · x · 2026-10-17
A former engineer who worked on a secret Apple project says journalists keep getting the details wrong, and he's not correcting them. His biggest regret: he saw the team making choices he believed were wrong, couldn't convince the project lead, left the project after 4 months and Apple two months later—years later the project was cancelled. Lesson: being right isn't enough; persuasion is an engineering skill.
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