• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Most people suck at software engineering.

    Plus, there’s always the temptation to do it the shitty way and “fix it later” (which never happens).

    You pay your technical debt. One way or another.

    It’s way worse than any gangster.

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      1 year ago

      amen

      Plus, there’s always the temptation to do it the shitty way and “fix it later”

      double amen

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      Rarely have I ever actually had consequences for my sins, which tends to be why I don’t go back and fix them…

      If tech debt weight is felt in any way, it tends to get fixed. If it’s not felt, it’s just incredibly easy to forget and disregard.

      (This is mostly me not learning my lesson well enough from my time being on Tech Debt: The Team. I do try and figure out the correct way to do things, but at the end of the day, I get paid to do what the boss wants as cheaply as possible, not what’s right :/ money dgaf about best practices until someone gets sued for malpractice, but on that logic, maybe the tech debt piper just hasn’t returned for payment from me yet… Only time will tell)

    • manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      If you’re smart you do it the quick and easy way and leave the company before it bites you in the ass. Only suckers stay with the same company for more than a few years