"Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen" : shooting sparrows with a cannon. This is the story of software development, nobody uses a shotgun to get the job done quic

"Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen" : shooting sparrows with a cannon. This is the story of software development, nobody uses a shotgun to get the job done quickly, because afterwards they're out of job. It's borderline criminal but all the nonsense is about scamming your employer to pay you hefty money for many years to build the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun. And the "geniuses" disappear right when the project gets to be delivered. Like the past few projects I worked on, the original developers that shall remain unnamed would spit out code like there was no tomorrow, always latest fashion and of course throw one or two badly broken ad-hoc domain specific languages pulled out of their ass. Get paid for two years or so and in 6 months before scheduled release, suddenly "be assigned to an uttermost important project", in fact another two years of jacking off with no responsibility. While their piece of art gets transferred to suckers like me who only need to do the "easy" finishing touches and get it released. If it succeeds, praise is in them, if it fails, it's my fault.