Technically they worked for me but they were way smarter so I had to make up techno babble just to not seem like a moron around them. "Maybe we could try to sinterate some cryon persulfamate and use it to reverse the polarity of a nyad pulse converter. What, you never learned that technique? Man, they don't teach you kids much these days"
Understand. I supported a customer on a contract he had with MIT. The MIT people were very smart in their area of expertise. However, systems engineering just wasn’t one of those areas. We had one hell of a time getting them to understand what SE was and how to do it properly. And, they were working one small project of a larger program.