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A lot of these companies don’t ship software at all, they write it only for internal use. It needs to be easily fixable by junior interns, not dependent on Bob
by chongli 3y ago
A lot of these companies don’t ship software at all, they write it only for internal use. It needs to be easily fixable by junior interns, not dependent on Bob the 100X programmer who decided to retire last week.
- kragen 3y agoyeah, and of course you normally want as much as possible of your software to be easily fixable by junior interns in any case; that's always better when there's no compensating drawback the implicit premise of your comment, however, seems to be that no such compensating drawback is possible, presumably because internal-use-only software isn't a competitive advantage. there are a lot of companies that think that way, but i think it's shortsighted; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402299 for some examples of companies that discovered that it mattered a lot how good their internal-use-only software was