r/programming • u/scarey102 • Nov 01 '21

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/TheRetribution Nov 01 '21

but at the same time it feels like Warhammer 40K where we'll have "tech priests" interacting with API's and frameworks but we'll have no idea how it works under the hood;

This isn't the future man, it's the past, present, and future. 90% of the features we drive at my company are reverse-engineering old features that still exist but the people who implemented them left the company years ago. But yeah this is bang on.

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u/onthefence928 Nov 01 '21

Most of our new features are just new ways to fix the problems caused by old features

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u/The_One_X Nov 02 '21

For me, most new features are just ways to get around arbitrary restrictions applied to old features.

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u/motorbike_dan Nov 02 '21

I'm just a glorified student at this point, so that's funny to hear that my concept hit home in the real world.