Comment by agentultra

Ah the threat of no work in order to depress wages. A scenario we’ve seen play out time and again. Typical capitalism.

That doesn’t mean we should accept mediocre. Businesses might not care. Few businesses have bought a product based on how many lines of code it has or how easy the code is to maintain.

Even building software for them for nearly 3 decades it became apparent early on that businesses don’t care. It has always been a point of contention: the struggle to ship now, faster and making sure we ship the right thing and do it well. We had to learn when to give ground and when to pull hard… because in the end there are times when it absolutely matters.

Just because business can’t recognize when it’s about to shoot itself in the foot doesn’t mean we should let them.

This has been the excuse of mediocre developers for decades too. It’s how we ended up with sloppy code in production. Terminals that can’t scroll without flickering or handle much data. Apps that have loading screens on super computers. Software that sometimes works. Ship fast and break stuff.