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IME the software quality (including my own) is already on the edge of the unmaintainable slop threshold. I don't think it can slip much further without taking t
by paulryanrogers 2y ago
IME the software quality (including my own) is already on the edge of the unmaintainable slop threshold. I don't think it can slip much further without taking their hosts down too. Even Apple's software quality seems to be hit or miss lately.
- wruza 2y agoThat's really okay for the most non-clueless-user facing software. Inhouse worked like that since forever. Half-assed, barely working out of happy path, dangerous if you tick that box, but doing its job anyway. There's still a large margin to drop from, to make software that isn't "boxed/saas" but tailored to very specific needs. Many devs may have felt that moment, when some personal tool or a script worked just fine, but any attempt to turn it into "an app for a user" resulted in a complexity mess. Maybe the answer is not better software, but less software and more code doing the job. I don't think it's a bad thing, if it will help real people rather than the usual bigcorp/unicorn critters.