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by marcinzm 1619 days ago
>Tech businesses face undesirable situations that result in low quality code as a side effect. Examples include critical employee departures, hyper growth, critical customer demands, and even changes in government regulatory requirements.

Go look at the business teams of any company and you will find a mountain of excel floating around. Magic excel that does magic things that no one understands anymore. Processes that make no sense but are ossified in place over decades. And so on.

This is a problem of having many people working together without an actual unified goal and nothing to do with tech. Large corporations are inefficient and slow. They are called dinosaurs for a reason.