> externalize all the costs to future suckers I literally just had this exact meeting yesterday. So much basic maintenance had been skipped that a suite of ap

> externalize all the costs to future suckers I literally just had this exact meeting yesterday. So much basic maintenance had been skipped that a suite of apps was costing too much money to migrate to a new platform. Instead of asking for more budget for that app, the dev manager suggested using the money from an upcoming project for an unrelated app to finish off this one! It's a literal Ponzi scheme, using funds from newcomers to pay off the technical debts of previous projects. Which of course never ends. Now the next project will go over budget, leading to rushed work, corner cutting, and drawing down on the project after that, which in turn will be a mess, etc... It's fascinating to watch this kind of stuff unfold as an outsider.