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Yes, this is all sadly common. And those traits you mention all go together! Let’s be clear, most of the software empires of the present day were built on this
by neilk 7y ago
Yes, this is all sadly common. And those traits you mention all go together!
Let’s be clear, most of the software empires of the present day were built on this style. It is possible to ship software like this!
But if you do neither testing nor code review, you almost certainly have a team that thinks downtime is for losers and heroes are coding 24/7. I believe they get addicted to the twin dopamine hits of cranking out code and saving the company from disasters that their code causes.
- anon1m0us 7y agoLet's be clear about something: Their CODE doesn't cause the disaster. The continued performance of known bad practices cause the disaster.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoTheir code because of bad practices can indeed cause a disaster. Misplacing a decimal in finance can mean millions lost. It doesn't mean they are less capable coders, it means that like the rest of us, they're human.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoI like that way of thinking about it.