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There is a sweet spot. The boss can't hire new grads to work on it, because they can smell the manure from a mile away. So as long as you're willing to slap o
by logfromblammo 8y ago
There is a sweet spot.
The boss can't hire new grads to work on it, because they can smell the manure from a mile away. So as long as you're willing to slap on yet another coat of superficial patches, they'll keep paying you to do it.
That's an equally-bad symptom of the same problem, approaching from the opposite side. The structural problem still doesn't get fixed, because the developers aren't repulsed by it at a visceral level quite enough to kill it with fire or nuke it from orbit. It's just scary enough to scare off the competition.
The technical debt is kept in place, so that people can live off of the technical interest payments. It's not an honorable living, but it is a living.
- chooseaname 8y agoYou're still stuck on "the code is bad and that's why they don't want to touch it." I'm saying, their attitude is bad and feel maintenance is beneath them. Every, and I mean every, development shop has some amount of tech debt. But even if the code is generally good quality, you have a subset of devs who think maintenance is below them. That's a bad attitude and people don't want to work with that.
- user5994461 8y agoIt's worse than that. All code instantly becomes technical debt the moment it's deployed. A development shop is almost entirely composed of technical debt, unless it never shipped anything.