Wartime software is a disaster unless you mean it, and should be treated with extreme caution even if you do. Wartime is an in house propaganda shop running po

Wartime software is a disaster unless you mean it, and should be treated with extreme caution even if you do. Wartime is an in house propaganda shop running posters that say Carthago Delenda Est, mid-level product managers discreetly but reliably dispensing Adderal, Ritalin, and Modafinil, open disdain for people who leave the office two days in a row, and paying enough that your people are just in a meaningful sense smarter than anyone else. Every company gets to pull that maybe once, so it has to count. And it’s a hell of a place and time to see. But if you’re not going the whole way, you’re far better off doing reliably good engineering in a repeatable way and poorly served by analogies to war.