← Back to context

Comment by temporallobe

1 day ago

This kind of goes along with my ongoing pet peeve about DX in general. There are very few organizations I’ve worked with that actually care and put their devs first. Case in point, I worked on a contract a few years ago with very frequent reauths where you had to enter your PIV card PIN about every 30 min. Obviously something was not configured correctly, but when we complained we were told that that was their security policy and to go pound sand. It made everyone so frustrated that productivity took a huge nosedive. I remember one day I was in the middle of trying to analyze something very tedious and having anxiety about the next time that dialog would prompt me for my PIN. Sure enough it happened, and I just gave up. I left my laptop, took a walk, and did nothing for the rest of the day. Eventually someone important petitioned for us and it was fixed, but I can’t begin to calculate how much money this wasted in terms of unproductive contract hours.