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Already this is essentially the ethos of large software companies like Google, et al. An employee is a cog that can be moved to any project or replaced/discarde
by ChrisSD 6y ago
Already this is essentially the ethos of large software companies like Google, et al. An employee is a cog that can be moved to any project or replaced/discarded as needed. [Exceptions are of course made for a handful of people they actually do value for one reason or another]. Software is treated the same if it's not a primary revenue source (even if it is profitable).
Heck, if you want a controversial opinion then arguably "disposable engineers" is an openly stated goal of programming languages like Go. [I'm not sure I'd entirely agree with this opinion but I wouldn't entirely disagree either].
- tomxor 6y agoYou're not wrong... I think the irony in this is that it likely produces very large codebases in an attempt to maximize legibility - in such a way that devs new to the code will spend an equal amount of time traversing it and trying to find things as they would have trying to understand a more minimal but less boring codebase while also potentially improving their abilities. In other words it's lose lose for all.