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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by tylermk04 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:53AM (#50365538)
> Devs aren't clowns who make it this far.

simias referred to the industry and you took it personally.

Why is it whenever someone mentions the shortcomings of software industry, there is always a comment saying "no no no, developers were just following orders!"

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by dymk on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:32AM (#50366050)
> “always been frustrated by the tendency of software devs, and in particular web devs”

Sounds like they’re talking about devs

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by jasondigitized on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:33AM (#50367042)
Because by that rationale all industries are circuses filled with clowns. It's incentives not ineptitude. It's a clumsy take.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by lilbigdoot on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:00PM (#50368425)
Because systemtic problems are often better explained through structural relationships rather than personal failings?

I don't disagree with the point that a lot of software that isn't pressured to be shipped quickly still ends up following bad practices, but I don't think we can ignore that the quality issues in software aren't also found all over in many industries because of profit motives?

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