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Why is it depressing? Does some collection of people on earth suffer from tech giant apps having too many lines of code? It very effectively shovels money from
by lanza 3y ago
Why is it depressing? Does some collection of people on earth suffer from tech giant apps having too many lines of code? It very effectively shovels money from these soulless companies into the pockets of the employees. No living entity is suffering, just the company from it's own bloat.
I find it to be quite a beautiful result. Developers get to develop and not focus on maintenance. The lack of local maintenance creates repository wide maintenance jobs that are also interesting in their own right.
It is tragedy of the commons. But really the only one who deals with the tragedy is the corporate entity.
- wpietri 3y agoCompanies don't suffer. That is reserved for the living. The depressing part is the large amount of waste here. Wasted time, wasted opportunity, wasted money. Wasted lives. What you're doing here is known as the broken window fallacy. The same developers could be developing meaningful things. They could be learning, like adults do, how to clean up after themselves, and so lead richer lives. The people forced into being code janitors could spend their time making things that actually get used. Or everybody could just do less work and go home early, doing things they care about. And speaking of use, let's note that the waste impacts the users and the world. The users could be getting better software. More useful features. Fewer bugs. New products, new ideas. They could also avoid a lot of the chaos that comes when a company dies of pernicious waste. For example, note that the original browser company, Netscape, failed due to poor code maintenance, letting IE take over. What might have happened if they had done better?