Re:Can't Be Fucked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt
by ryandrake on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:02PM
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You'll notice I never blamed developers in particular. This attitude is shared across "software as a whole" including developers, their managers, their PMs, their exec leadership. Everyone is part of the machine that is prioritizing money and a short-term horizon over craftsmanship and quality, including but not limited to the developers. We all have agency.
The problem is the business doesn't care about anything except how much money can be gotten out it, often with a short-term horizon.
So the developers and the business people walk shoulder to shoulder for a little ways, where the two interests are aligned, but then we part ways at the point of introducing technical debt. As a developer, I'm not free to take the time I need to pay down this debt, because of business constraints.