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> You're assuming the engineers that do this care on a fundamental level, but that there must exist other factors which coerce them into doing it anyway. FAANG
by red-iron-pine 3y ago
> You're assuming the engineers that do this care on a fundamental level, but that there must exist other factors which coerce them into doing it anyway.
FAANG salaries. prestige of FAANG work.
work devolved into L1 and L2 requirements that can, with a bit of effort, obfuscate what a feature does. "hey Jim, did you knock out those 8 L2s? we gotta ship end of the month" -- and it just becomes another feature add.