Re:Can't Be Fucked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt
by munificent on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:55PM
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The correct career choice is to seek organizations whose values align with yours as much as possible.
Life is too short to spend most of your waking hours surrounded by people whose beliefs go against yours.
No? Doing things the right, robust way regularly takes more time and effort than doing it the quick and dirty way, which means your lazy coworker gets the management attention and raise instead of you.
For the vast majority of software developers, the correct career choice is just to always be making your manager's life easier, and they rarely care about "doing things the right way", especially when whatever you write will be replaced in five years because someone somewhere is too lazy to understand the current codebase.