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Another post from the same author puts this in an interesting context: https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful/ https://www.seangoedecke.com/g
by praptak 2y ago
Another post from the same author puts this in an interesting context: https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful/ https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful/ (follow up: https://www.seangoedecke.com/cynicism/ https://www.seangoedecke.com/cynicism/)
Keeping the code base tidy is glue work, so you should only do enough of it to ship features. So maybe these are not "mistakes" but rather tactical choices made by politically smart engineers focused on shipping features.
- lmm 2y agoFollowing management instructions against your better judgement is hardly uncynical - unless it's coming from a place of such naivety that you actually think you're wrong and they're right, and I don't think it is. My experience is the opposite of the author's: in terms of their revealed preferences, line workers care far more about the company and its customers than managers and executives do, precisely because it's far easier for the latter to fail upwards than the former.