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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by arkh on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:38AM (#44307207)
> Developers almost universally lack discipline.

Or developers are given a deadline and no slack to learn the code base. So developers will tactically take the fastest route to closing their ticket.

Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by rkomorn on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:42AM (#44307231)
This. You'll take "too long", you'll be told you're overthinking/overengineering, people will preach iterating, that done is better than perfect, etc.

It's not developers that lack discipline. It's CTOs, VPs, etc.