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Even then, be skeptical. The software industry provides positive pressure to improve one's skills, but doesn't provide much if any negative pressure against la
by ravenstine 4y ago
Even then, be skeptical. The software industry provides positive pressure to improve one's skills, but doesn't provide much if any negative pressure against lacking competence or willingness to learn. If developers want to, they can pretty easily skate by without developing talent, besides when their framework of choice becomes defunct.
- vsareto 4y agoThis is true for a lot of low-brow work because companies simply need people to grind through requirements for their bespoke CRUD apps and integrations. There's still a boat load of that kind of work to be done, but it's only a fraction of the work available. There are plenty of places where that negative pressure exists though and there's higher standards of quality. I doubt anyone is skating by with hacky code in aviation or space, for instance. So what you're talking about isn't really an issue where it matters.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoPeople absolutely produce hacky, sketchy code in aerospace and other safety-critical environments.