Are they in some separate category?

Aren’t spiders insects?

No idea what this program is for, but from the practical use point of view, the example from the image is horrendous: 35x11 is calculated trivially as 35x10+35. Not that craziness.

I’m a simple man: bigger numbers mean newer version. And that’s enough for me :)

Did the manager ask

How can I know? Plus engineer could easily lie as he did it right from the start.

but he needs to understand what his/her people are saying.

It isn’t enough to detect deliberate lies from an engineer like in this case.

You expect a manager to be more competent in engineering than an engineer? You expect the manager to always expect a lie from an engineer and recheck any data received from the engineer?

Well, we have very different ideas about how engineers and managers work.

So you want the manager to be cleverer than the engineer in engineering, so the manager would be able to detect a deliberate lie from the engineer?

You are contradicting yourself.

Do you want me to present you with a definition of “lie”? I believe you don’t understand the phrase “Lies and creates shit”.

hate the game.

Game rules: You want a promotion? Make something cool, improve something while using approaches that will show that you deserve a higher position and, therefore, a bigger salary.

Player: (Lies and creates shit that is even worse than the initial situation.)

Lemmy: Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Ok, now fire him.