Comment by readthenotes1
2 years ago
One of brooks's papers (the guy that brooks's law is named after) is about how software developers would rather write the tools to solve the problem and then solve the problem itself.
A fair amount of this article is observing this problem persists 60 years later.
> how software developers would rather write the tools to solve the problem and then solve the problem itself.
That's because you know you'll be stuck with maintaining the solution. Nowadays, we have resume-driven people that just build stuff without any care as they know they're only here for two or three years.