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> [pointless changes] in products that are little more than blogs with a few interactive elements. I wonder if a lot of this isn't busy work to justify having
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
> [pointless changes] in products that are little more than blogs with a few interactive elements.
I wonder if a lot of this isn't busy work to justify having engineers on staff.
You need engineers on staff to make changes when that is necessary, but you don't typically need to constantly be make such changes. At the same time the engineers can't be seen doing nothing, so this type of work is invented.
- zelphirkalt 3y agoYou are saying engineers should build software, that doesn't frequently require changes to fit some new use case? Outrageous. Then we would have to do proper engineering and make things flexible, anticipating potential use-cases. We would have to heed advice written in books such as PAIP (or more recently "Software Design for Flexibility"). Can we be expected to know literature of our own field?