[pragmacoders]

There were budget cuts. Teams were shuffled around.

You're running the team now. Your colleagues have only ever built boxes. Go get em', master architect!

This is my (hopefully humourous but actually taken from my experience) way of saying that companies will often do what is most immediately profitable rather than what's best in the long run (for humanity or themselves).

[llampx]

If they are building houses where the roof caves in after the first rain, they won't be in business long.

[Ma8ee]

Why? Nowhere was it written in the requirements that the house must be able to withstand rain.

[no-s]

woodpeckers. civilization.