I kept thinking “damn, you people work like this?” - is this supposed to be the future of programming everybody is excited about? Fuck this shit, man. It is utter lunacy.
Which is made possible only because of the excellent foundations that were built during the past decades.
However, while I say that we should do quality work, the current situation is very demoralizing and has me asking what's the point of it all. For everybody around me the answer appears to really just be money and nothing else. But if getting money is the one and only thing that matters, I can think of many horrible things that could be justified under this framework.
You mean like therac-25 era?
All of this shit is just so goddamned ridiculous.
I kept thinking “damn, you people work like this?” - is this supposed to be the future of programming everybody is excited about? Fuck this shit, man. It is utter lunacy.
That's engineering. What we have today isn't engineering, it's grift, people hyping the grift, and people falling for it en masse.
Which is made possible only because of the excellent foundations that were built during the past decades.
However, while I say that we should do quality work, the current situation is very demoralizing and has me asking what's the point of it all. For everybody around me the answer appears to really just be money and nothing else. But if getting money is the one and only thing that matters, I can think of many horrible things that could be justified under this framework.
Engineering-shaped processes
I can’t believe it’s not engineering™