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Nobody gets promoted for fixing bugs. That is the sad state of big tech. My theory is this misalignment of incentives is probably at the heart of most of our q
by XenophileJKO 1y ago
Nobody gets promoted for fixing bugs. That is the sad state of big tech.
My theory is this misalignment of incentives is probably at the heart of most of our quality rot in software. Product managers are incentivized to create new features that boost the daily active users, while generally blind to the death by a thousand cuts caused by all the quality issues.
- quacked 1y agoIf it were possible to turn off reports back to the manufacturer of what features were used and how often they were used on a grand scale, we'd enter into a golden age of software. I hate using technology now, with every button click reporting that it was clicked and features being sorted by "most used" instead of into logical placements relative to one another.
- fc417fc802 1y agoIt's the exact same issue that science has. Reproducing past work won't get you funding so no one bothers unless there's no alternative. Negative results won't get you funding so no one publishes them which means people inevitably repeat the same failed experiments. It seems like large institutions almost inevitably accumulate misaligned incentives along with an inertia that makes them almost impossible to correct.
- sorokod 1y agoExploration over exploitation. I don't see this as a misalignment, it is a choice by the company, to the extent companies as a whole make choices. The incentives are the manifestations of those choices.