The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

Lauris Beinerts · 33M views · 2014-03-23 · 7:35

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Overview

A comedy sketch of a business meeting in which an engineer, the expert, is asked to do impossible things like draw red lines with blue ink.

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Shared constantly as a painfully accurate depiction of absurd requirements, clueless management and estimation pressure.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2014–2025

Topics

Stand-up & sketch comedy Satire & parody Management, leadership & organizations

What people said

citizenpaul · 2025-10 · Joke / meme
Oh snap that was some good "the expert" energy. [VIDEO] Why cant we have parallel lines that intersect. Geometry.
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eloisant · 2023-11 · Joke / meme
If it can pass it when you ask it in a way only a coder can write, then we will still need coders. If you need to tweak your prompt until you get the correct result, then we still need coders who can tell that the code is wrong. Ask Product Managers to use ChatGPT instead of coders and they will ask for 7 red lines all perpendicular to each other with one being green. [VIDEO]
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IanCal · 2023-10 · Joke / meme
Always a good time to rewatch the expert: [VIDEO] > most people are okay at describing their problems, but suck at proposing solutions Yes, it's best to focus on their problems and the consequences of proposed solutions. They shouldn't care about your caching strategy internals but they do care about whether stale info impacts their users or what scale it's reasonable to hit, or how much extra it'll cost to implement.
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