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> Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. ... >it seems that people get p

by 77pt77 4y ago

> Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. ... >it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve This has been going on forever and it's anything but software specific. You're just getting old. Things have always been like this.

alecco 4y ago
From Worse is Better (80s) and The Cathedral and the Bazaar (90s)... ending up in software shipped with some custom Docker container to make it work and nodejs modules doing trivial operations breaking a lot of things. Software has a clear trend. Not all of it, but a significant part. I'm not saying we should go to mainframes and waterfall development. Speed improved a lot but quality only marginally (relative to tools available).