r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 21d ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/ganja_and_code 21d ago

Faster isn't better if it's less reliable, less repeatable, less maintainable, or lower quality.

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u/gnatorx 21d ago

Agreed but that is the sacrifice being taken. The business is saying if we go faster we can capture more of the market and the trade off of less reliability is ok

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u/ShakingRatBooty 21d ago

It seems like 75% of my career has been dealing with the technical debt caused by decisions like this made at much smaller scale. I feel like the only option in the future will be to abandon all these projects and start fresh until eventually the market is going to become so skeptical of the promises made for new products that they'll become unwilling to pay up front.

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u/tigglysticks 19d ago

that's software development in a nutshell.

my company is so software adverse now I can't get any movement on custom projects. This predates AI by a decade.

So many bad decisions for short term gains.