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Maybe you don’t need an architect when quality doesn’t matter and everyone is shipping mvps

• Bjartr 2y ago
  Knowing what constitutes "minimum viable" takes experience.
• bayindirh 2y ago
  The problem is, the architect is the person who can ship that mvp both viably and in minimum time, because building that fast soundly requires experience.
  • Muromec 2y ago
    That assumes you want to optimize time and quality. I was blessed with using the product of MSFT the other day, where pressing the "Save" button in the settings dialog resulted in 403 from the backend that the app simply didn't see. No error message, the loader is still spinning. It wasn't the dark corner or rarely used functionality. People are okay with shipping shit and spending infinite amount of time on it.
    • bayindirh 2y ago
      That deeply bothers me. With all the technology, libraries, frameworks, processes and even with AI, we are supposed to build better software, if not faster. What we do is making the same mistakes over and over again, but piling them faster than ever because we can make a simulated token emitter go brr...