Comment by sneak
1 day ago
It’s just resumé driven development. Corporate droids gotta justify their salaries somehow. It doesn’t pay to call software “done”.
1 day ago
It’s just resumé driven development. Corporate droids gotta justify their salaries somehow. It doesn’t pay to call software “done”.
Individual developers or even developer management doesn't get much of a say in product direction at large corporations. The product management folks are who decide what features go in and when.
PMs have resumes too :)
- Successfully led key efforts to modernize aging platform technologies
- Directed integration of cutting-edge system-wide artificial intelligence functionality
Even if you talk to users, you can do it the wrong way. Big companies are incentivized by the stock market to care more about new users than existing ones because their only focus is growth. Growth can't be rooted in your existing users is a common feeling in product management circles. If you try to do things for people other than your existing users, then you end up doing odd stuff that at best is a mild annoyance. More likely you hurt their ability to continue using the app.
Exemplified by every website with a massive SIGN UP button and then a little 8 pt font log in tucked away somewhere underneath.
Gee thanks for helping me find the button I'll use literally once and making me hunt for the one I'll need the other 99999 times I use this service.
Existing users can go fuck themselves as long as new people are registering. Line go up!
I can’t tell you how relieving it is to hear somebody else complain about this. This has been my pet peeve for ages.
Unjustified downvoting. You absolutely have a point. Not just software, also the gazillion UI/UX designers. They keep moving things around and changing colors and fucking things up just to justify their salaries. Case in point: Google maps. It was perfect 15 years ago. We don't need vomit inducing color changes every 2 years
And yet, if they were raising a Series A, they'd be lauded as "disruptors"
By some
Some of us were impressionable when Jurassic Park came out.
The vast majority of hn commentors, I'd wager.
Microsoft is driving AI adoption. Why blame tge workers for this?
Why can't Indian software developers stand up for themselves and say no?
Because there are plenty of developers who'll say yes, so anyone saying no is putting their ethics ahead of their livelihood. Few people will be willing to put their beliefs ahead of providing for their family.
It's easy to say you will, and very hard to actually do it.
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It's a cultural thing. They'd much rather do what they think someone means than question authority
Hard to say no to paycheck
Microsoft is comprised of its workers.
All workers are equal, but some workers are more equal than others
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