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Or to put it in other words: perhaps there is a market for better tools that would allow less skilled people (or just less people) to produce the same outputs
by ithkuil 6y ago
Or to put it in other words: perhaps there is a market for better tools that would allow less skilled people (or just less people) to produce the same outputs
- pjc50 6y agoThat's pretty much always true. Actually making those better tools turns out to be a hard problem.
- ithkuil 6y agoAlso don't underestimate how hard it is to sell otherwise good tools
- humanrebar 6y agoThat's not a complete rephrasing. It's possible the current designs and processes cannot accommodate more productivity but the relevant market segment is fine. I expect there are multiple contributors to the problem. I'd avoid explaining it all away with a single cause, even one as compelling as "let's figure out how to throw more brains at the problem".
- ithkuil 6y agoSure, I have no idea about the specific company cited; but I do think that most of the effort spent by most of software developers in most of the companies is wasted on details that are not manifest to people who don't have direct experience with the job on a daily basis (either as working developers or by people managing them). The farther up and out you go, the easier is it to underappreciated the rabbit hole that software development is, and thus to underestimate the costs. And to, once realizing that, still be baffled at how it is possible that "just doing this little thing was really supposed to cost that much?". Many just don't invest the "right" amount of resources, judging that there is something wrong with all that, that we're either subject to an overinflated salary bubble or something else.