Tim ChaffeeMar 8
Jason Gorman

Developers: "The problem is that the faster we go, the more we get things wrong and have to fix them or do them over again, which actually makes us slower overall"

Big Tech: "I see, yes. What if... hear us out... what if you could get things wrong much, much faster?"

Mar 7 at 3:15pmWeb
Show threadGerardMar 7
@jasongorman well... depends if it's bandwidth or response time.
Show threaddemofoxMar 7
@jasongorman yeah I was thinking about this yesterday. Bugs are found by spending more time with the code and realizing mistakes. 😥
Show threadJohn BreenMar 7
@jasongorman I remember having normal, sane discussions among stakeholders and devs of the form "can we sustain 1, 2, 4, or 12 releases every year ?".
Now it's like "we are pushing a CI/CD build every day, automated regression tests are good enough". Get ready to tell everyone "it will be fixed in the next release".
Nobody is rewarded for opposing velocity. You keep up with the chaos as long as you can.
Show threadPrincess UnikittyMar 7

@jasongorman

turning a big dial taht says "wrongness" on it and constantly looking back at the market for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Show threadRide TheoryMar 8
@unikitty @jasongorman
Show threadadritheonlyMar 7
@jasongorman Definitely! The current state of game development is a stunning example. I used to gasp at a little flaw. Now? You go through 10 games and find one that is maybe 50% OK. Complain and the devs blame your hardware that wasn't bought 5min. ago.
Show threadAntonio PatriarcaMar 8
@adritheonly @jasongorman Compared to other software, game development is still an haven on code quality IMHO.
Show threadadritheonlyMar 8
@antopatriarca @jasongorman Oh dear! We're stuffed then, aren't we? Gone are the days of going to the Moon with a PC running DOS.
Show threadAntonio PatriarcaMar 8
@adritheonly @jasongorman Absolutely... Now is the time for code editors requiring 8+ GB of RAM to run.
Show threadReed MidekeMar 7
@jasongorman Payday loans for technical debt. What could possibly go wrong?
Show threadcraignicolMar 8
@jasongorman @AndrewHenry bonus: what if you could get things wrong in ways you used to before you had experience? And if you're very lucky, what if you could get something catastrophically wrong?
Show threadMichkovMar 9
@jasongorman I'd like to introduce Big Tech to the concept of inertia...