No One Cares About Software Quality

Assess the trade-off you’re making between quality and pace, make sure it’s appropriate for your context

There’s always a trade-off between implementation speed and how confident you are about correctness. So you should ask yourself: how okay is it to ship bugs in my current context? If the answer to this doesn’t affect the way you work, you’re bei... See more

Yes. Word processing is bad. Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts. https://t.co/TCbEfRMONp

Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very tru... See more

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE... See more

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