Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development
by izacus on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:28AM
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But those two things are not related - my experience shows is that a giant amount of code WILL run forever. That quick hack you did? In production for 6 years. That quick "demo" you thew together? People will curse you for next 10 years.
If anything, FAANGs have resources and intertia to actually work on technical debt. Smaller companies will just churn and churn and churn until they bog down into unmaintainable mess of a code and can't respond to market changes anymore because their codebase is impossible to change or maintain.
Then they'll usually call us to fix their issue and be angry when the answer is "there's no easy way out of the mess you caused" while their competition is moving ahead of them.
If anything, FAANGs have resources and intertia to actually work on technical debt. Smaller companies will just churn and churn and churn until they bog down into unmaintainable mess of a code and can't respond to market changes anymore because their codebase is impossible to change or maintain.
Then they'll usually call us to fix their issue and be angry when the answer is "there's no easy way out of the mess you caused" while their competition is moving ahead of them.