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by midoridensha 1340 days ago
>There's no thought put into long-term stability or serviceability of software.

Why should there be? How does this improve short-term profits? Customers are happy to pay for buggy software that gets replaced with something even worse in a few years, so why worry about making quality code?

>but if the software isn't performing its basic needs, what are you even shipping?

Something that makes lots of profit, despite being of terrible quality.