They build what they want to build, usually because customers go AWOL once the project starts, or the programmers give up talking to business people at some point.

他们构建 他们想构建的东西，这通常是因为客户在项目一开始时就擅离职守，或者是程序员在某些时刻放弃与业务人员交谈。

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Shaheen must be about the hundredth colonel from the "old economy" to go AWOL this year.

FORBES: Digital Rules

Sort of AWOL at the moment, and my intention is just not to go back, because it's just, it takes too much of who I am, I suppose.

BBC: Programme transcript