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by acedTrex 93 days ago
The industry is broken now, this is just a response to that. Leadership and product don't have any respect for the code, why would engineers have any respect for the ticketing process.

Thats an unreasonable asymmetric effort demand, "Your code does not matter but my precious tickets must have elbow grease put into them."
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Aurornis 93 days ago
> The industry is broken now, this is just a response to that.

No, your behavior is the cause of that.

The entire industry isn't broken. There are good company cultures and bad company cultures just like always.

At least own up to what you're doing. Don't blame "the industry" when you're the one doing the thing.

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qdotme 93 days ago
Or.. both!

The industry is broken. It's broken in the same sense the railroad industry is broken. It has reached the point of abundance, where we're doing things that don't need doing. That won't get done in an efficient market. But since we're not in an efficient market, there are globs of capital thrown at people building stuff that.. doesn't stand a chance of actually making any return on capital.

But while it lasts, us, the glorified machine-minders (just like railroad engineers, well, minded the engines), get paid large lumps of money, through large hordes of managers, arguing on minutia of conversion optimization, and fundamentally, being paid enough to not to try and do something else, perhaps competitive.

And that is broken. Especially for the "smarter of us" - the graduation ceremony of my physics department rings true - we've trained you to discover the secrets of universe and reach the stars, and most of us will use it.. to gain an edge at Lehman Brothers.

(And I think the root of this problem, is the abundance of low-risk capital, from people who expect a small return and a pension that lasts for decades in retirement)

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acedTrex 93 days ago
> No, your behavior is the cause of that.

My behavior is a reaction to the environment I am in. And currently the environment is push slop code as fast as possible. So being able to claw back just a little bit of my time from the people pushing this stupidity is a small pro in a sea of cons.

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zenolove 93 days ago
What about "your milestones, roadmap, discussions and strategies do not matter, but my precious code had elbow grease put into it."

Petty and getting nowhere. Everyone loses. How about product and engineers also disrespect sales, and sales disrespects customers and everyone else.

I really don't get why this is even a question. Good people do good stuff, and bad people make bad companies.

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