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> the demand to ship something right this second and is existential for the company tends to prioritize shipping over well engineered code. This is a challenge
by duggan 2y ago
> the demand to ship something right this second and is existential for the company tends to prioritize shipping over well engineered code.
This is a challenge, though very early in my career I learned that one solution to this is to just get better and faster.
Failing to deliver to your own standards becomes a motivator (with lots of caveats in regard to working environment, domain applicability, etc).
- fragmede 2y agoalso learning to say no is an important skill to develop. my current director asks the impossible just to get us to say no, and then we have a good back and forth on what's a realistic balance, like what features we can trade off for which time.