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by rektide 1177 days ago
Not even just fighting ill fought plans but whether we decide to execute well or dial it in. The pressure to ship ship ship comes from a lot of places, and relatively few of them have the technical competence to assess, care about, or evaluate code & quality. They don't actually understand what they're pressuring forward, so often.

And most of them face no real consequences. They don't have to maintain or repair some grossly abomination of a system, that's the engineers job. They'll be leading new feature dev new business dev forever & ever.