[tpdly]

Yeah, even though I like 'craftsmanship' here, stakeholders don't. I think "durability" is pretty good. 'Engineering standards' perhaps. I think we'll start to see the groundwork laid for software engineering as a proper engineering field, where specific performance characteristics are required for certain stakes.

Code can be like "heavy machinery", maybe needs license to operate. If an app has sensitive data in it, it becomes like a residential structure subject to building codes and inspections. I shudder to think of how this would play out it our oligarchic, anti-competitive environment though.

[godelski]

  > stakeholders don't

Because why would they? Most stakeholders don't have long term incentives, only short term. So the incentive is to buy low, cut corners, sell high. What's more incredible[0] is that the aggregation of this somehow makes long term growth.

[0] It's not incredibly, it's monopolies

[NichoPaolucci]

Hah. What a dream. Instead they’ll hire a team of what is essentially interns and have them deploy mass amounts of minuscule features with 0 guidance because, “hey - it’s cheap as hell and does 75% of what it’s supposed to do.”

A license to operate the code, what a trip.

To be frank, most other business units that are not tech or tech adjacent do not care about the code in the slightest, or the maintenance / security / durability of said code. It’s a tough world to live in. We understand the value of good code, maintainable systems, and proper design across the board. Relaying that to leadership who does not see the value is time wasted.

“What do you mean we need to rewrite it to adhere to engineering spec? It already works. Just deploy it to production”.

I don’t think we’ll ever be treated as engineers. We just had a non-technical person spin up a vibe-app that is now in production, real (measured, methodical, secure, spec driven, efficient) development is actively being devalued at my company and probably across the board…

Rant over. You propose a good solution I just can’t envision a future like this, there’s too much value in “barely good enough”, but perhaps the ramifications of that will eventually bring about your proposed future!

[bjertoref]

This is Indian Jugaad mentality being imported into Software Development. English equivalent is Kludge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad