[sebastianconcpt]

So instead of prototype often, go production early and iterate frequently is now spelled: Write shitty code?

Oh boy...

If masters and geniuses of the past would read the "common-sensical" advice we hear today and how it is being expressed, they would not be surprised by the general shitty state of the world (all civilisations around the world) but to find it plain miraculous that we're still in a semi-funcional way or alive at all.

If you know how to write good code, write good code for the state of the world right now then. Care about the future in the future. Kent Beck taught us this already in a very detailed way two decades ago. Invented Unit Tests in Smalltalk to have fast feedback on regressions frequently and granularly. All languages have that today. Then why in the world do, instead, these software engineer self-serving rationalizations that will accumulate tech debt you're carefully not talking about?

How in the world an unexperienced developer would receive this advice as a propaganda in any way other than a push of self-indulgence for incompetence? How this advice makes you an A player?

[cryptica]

I was thinking the exact same thing but I've read so many of these utter nonsense articles recently that I rarely even bother to comment on them anymore. Who knows. Maybe they're written by a bot with a job-creation agenda. It's just cringe.

I think your intuition is right, the world economy seems to have been hollowed out. Look at medicine, the media, big tech... They all suck. It seems as though they've been promoting idiots intentionally and now idiots are calling the shots.