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Why is more quantity good? Why is "developer growth" good? Isn't it important whether these developers all have good quality of life, and whether they're buildi
by kevingadd 3y ago
Why is more quantity good? Why is "developer growth" good? Isn't it important whether these developers all have good quality of life, and whether they're building quality software? Is it a good thing if we have a hundred thousand new developers, all building low quality software on top of Copilot output, and then a few years from now all of that stuff starts breaking and we don't have enough expert developers around to come in and clean up the mess?
I think opening doors for more people to enter the career is good, and making it easier for developers to do their jobs is good. But I don't think quantity over quality is the right model to apply to software development, because history is full of examples of how just shipping something that works can mean massive expensive consequences down the road.