Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by al_borland 330 days ago
Stop chasing trends and changing for the sake of change. At my job, management is constantly forcing us to reinvent the wheel. The systems we used 15 years ago would still work fine, and be very robust and mature by now. Instead, with each re-write new gaps and bugs come to the surface. For some reason we choose to live in Groundhog Day, instead of making the choice to prioritize cheap, boring stability. Each new solution feels more fragile than the last. When we know someone will tell us to throw it all out in 2 years, there is little incentive to prioritize durability.
1 comments

> At my job, management is constantly forcing us to reinvent the wheel.

It's called; sustaining the gravy train. Why fix something once when you can "fix it" over and over again...? Grifters and posers.