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by allen_berg 775 days ago
Anything gets old. I feel like a lot of the problems my friends and I have with software work comes down to having to wrangle the same sort of nonsense week in, week out.

Alienation of the workers and all that. Profitable but psychologically damaging. We thrive when we get to be whole persons.
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arcbyte 775 days ago
It's not profitable and we should stop saying that. The issue is that there's just not enough quality out there so companies accept less quality and have to start managing for it.

If they could hire fewer people who crank awesome shit out they would.

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ornornor 774 days ago
> If they could hire fewer people who crank awesome shit out they would.

I don’t know this is true. My personal experience across a dozen jobs is that the only metric that really matters is “how low can you go?” Cost is the thing to minimize and quality is the absolute first thing to be considered optional and to be cut to fulfill the cost objective. Closely followed by “how fast can you go?” Not a pleasant way to work.

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