Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020)
by JohnBooty on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:01PM
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as they should, because [timely delivery] is the
only thing that matters to 99% of humans for any
non-critical stuff
The tech debt you accrue today in the name of "shipping fast" hurts your ability to execute timely delivery in the future.
That's why management should care.
Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020)
by jcelerier on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:08PM
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or is it ? some code is made to be long-lasting (and that's the one we "see" because of course it lasted long already) but the large majority is short-term projects which are only relevant for a few months / years and will never get reused afterwards.
Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020)
by JohnBooty on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:01PM
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Hah, yeah, I think we haven't a terminology difference here. I wouldn't even term "bad" code in short-lived projects to be "tech debt" in the first place.
I definitely agree you about the near irrelevance of tech debt in short lived projects.
the large majority is short-term projects which
But it really depends on if you're working at e.g. an agency vs. working on long lived in house projects.
as they should, because it's the only thing that matters to 99% of humans for any non-critical stuff (and honestly, even critical... even stuff that can kill humans, we are very good at saying "one chance of death in XXX is an acceptable risk" ; I'd wager that anything that is below the average death rate of car driving in a particular time / area is in general ok).
I'd rather learn a software that has bugs today than a perfect software in a year - by that time I've already organized my workflow around the bugs and already spent 1/30th of the time of my projected remaining future career around this software. I'm not going to re-learn yours even if it works better.