> "I need X million USD in engineering spend this year to fix half a decade of awful technical execution and decision making (that all happened under your watch

> "I need X million USD in engineering spend this year to fix half a decade of awful technical execution and decision making (that all happened under your watch, BTW)". I don't know what is there in the IT/dev industry that compels some characters to quickly whip out blanket accusations of gross incompetence to anyone who isn't them. This mindset is particularly egregious given that the whole industry has enthusiastically adopted as a best practice just agilying big balls of mud through sequences of quickly delivered stopgap solutions while refactoring and paying off technical debt is seen as wasted effort. The author of this blog post clearly described refactoring a legacy system that worked reliably in hopes to improve their operations. Yet, here you are accusing someone investing their time and effort to improve their stuff as something that could only be explained as incompetence?