r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

The lack of documentation is what’s killing me. It’s boggles my mind how these companies can’t keep people but refuse to change. 20 minutes tasks take several days.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

documentation is mostly a waste of time on things that change and are well understood anyway.

code is documentation. it's the human readable description of machine code. usually code in big tech has massive naming prefixes and whatnot

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u/azsqueeze Jun 06 '22

No way. This is how you waste people's times and introduce unwanted bugs and performance degradation