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No One Cares About Software Quality
As an industry, we get away with this because people have a substantially lower expectation of software than they do of rockets.
Erik Dietrich • The Expert Beginner
It’s a little depressing that these days we mainly use computers to consume fast and react fast. Task management turns us into more productive human machines. Rather conveniently for managers, human machines have higher predictability and lower inherent value – they’re easy to automate, replace, and erase.
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
pketh • Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered
We were warned about this. We were warned about the dangers of too much complexity, but we didn’t care. Now, rather than understanding how the thing works and what to do to fix it, we basically cross our fingers anytime we boot up our computer or open an app. These criticisms aren’t original to me, I am just a messenger.
Anna-Sofia Lesiv • Criticizing Computers
software development actually suffers from diseconomies of scale: the more engineers, the slower it goes.