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by jiggawatts 606 days ago
Ah yes, the “you touched it last” or the venerable “you brought us the bad news” schools of management.

I also love the “we’ll do the meta-work that improves work velocity after the work is finished. Not before! We’re too busy for that now.”

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Yep, we’ll optimize it later infra told me. I hear it still at my current employer. Optimize it later means you’re touching on a long ignored piece of negative tech debt.
"There is no later." is my new mantra.
“I’ll just use a different provider that isn’t our inhouse over-engineered AWS yaml config platform.” Is mine.