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by hinkley 97 days ago
Then this is an era of snake oil because customers aren’t going to put up with that shit for long.
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They’ve been putting up with crappy software for two decades(at least).
Crappy software that works. Unfortunately for all clanker evangelists, you need humans to review all the clanker spaghetti, manage infra, do firefighting and translate business requirements into working systems (gross oversimplification of what that entails). Just code review alone takes up a huge toll on our bandwidth.
Five decades but I’m talking about an unprecedented degree of crappiness.