80% of programmers are NOT happy… why? - YouTube
80% of programmers are NOT happy… why? - YouTube
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No space and time for creativity or "doing it right", just do it fast, like yesterday also that feature we talked about three months ago? yeah, client also needs this added ...
Or even better: this is what up to 20 years of technical debt does to people
Also we don't make anything cool: just soulless corpo widgets for counting other widgets
Hey I'll have you know I create tech debt all the time ... Oh you said cool
This is gonna be my new answer to "What do you do?"
I've been on my project for 23 years. I haven't written production code for ten of those years. There are still commits in the production branch with my name on them. Is both gratifying and mortifying.
I was talking with two other "old-timers" today about our inability to pay off tech debt because our teams are never given the time to do it
Thank you for writing this. You make me feel better about my lack of writing code.
never given the time to do it
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
I see we work at the same company
You could say you're in good company
Or the quantitative "x bugs per week" KPI....
It's easier to fix bugs that you just introduced to be able to cover that KPI, too 🌚