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This is probably my biggest beef with the "culture" of software development nowadays. Back in my day (hold on while I go grab my cane...) software developers w
by Person5478 6y ago
This is probably my biggest beef with the "culture" of software development nowadays.
Back in my day (hold on while I go grab my cane...) software developers would just flap their lips and sound would come out at each other.
Nowadays there seems to be this underlying assumption that actually talking to each other is a waste of time, that it should all be documented with no curation, and should always be in PR's, et al.
I'm all for documenting decisions, but I feel like it's not too much effort to swing by someone's office and have a discussion with them. At that point, maybe you don't even need to document if the updates are small issues. Is it really so all-encompassingly important?
But maybe I'm just old. Most of the time I'd rather talk to a human when I call into tech support too (unless it's something obviously automated like making a payment).
- nicoburns 6y ago> I feel like it's not too much effort to swing by someone's office and have a discussion with them Well there is a modern trend that's supposed to help with this too: open plan offices. No need to swing by their office, they're already right there (this has indeed been my working environment for most of my career). It's all a bit different at the moment of course, but my team regularly video calls each other to discuss things that would take too long over text.