[andrewstuart]

I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence.

Wildly swinging dogmatism on how to do software development that’s so wrong you have to throw it all away - then repeating this failure loop multiple times.

Doesn’t inspire any confidence in the person I wouldn’t get them to lead a project.

Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.

[randlet]

"bugs were appearing everywhere out of the blue. The codebase was a huge mess of nulls, undefined behaviour, bad error handling. It was so bad that we actually lost a client over this."

Especially wild considering their product is literally an automated bug finder lol.

[pavel_lishin]

It's not particularly clear if that sentence refers to one of their previous, pre-current-pivot, products.

[stephantul]

Same. Admitting to it is one thing, but still it takes a certain kind of attitude to outright forbid people to write tests.

[monsieurbanana]

I think there's a real possibility this is a "no such thing as bad publicity" stunt.

[ordu]

> I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence.

Well yeah. It reminds me of how I wrote an addon for WoW, while having no clue how to write GUI code, learning lua and Blizzard API as I go, and having no tools except a text editor. It took 3-4 sharp ideological shifts, till I got to reading about elm architecture, and refactored all the code into it, while using addons helping with debugging issues, using a scaffold to create throw away addons for testing details of how WoW API functions/object work, using Ace library for messages and some other things, using my another addon to track events to learn when and which events WoW fires... Near the end I was a pretty competent addon developer, but the most part of my way there I was just trying a lot of things to see what works.

> Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.

Oh, I also like to tell my story of how it was. When I finally got it work on clean elm architecture with clear separation of state, view and update, I was proud, obviously, but even before that I was proud because of Danning-Kruger. My code was a way better than the original addon, and it was becoming better and better with each sharp turn. It is funny in hindsight.