Ek-Hou-Van-Braai5d ago
Now listen here you little shit
Show threadViatorOmnium5d ago
Yes, and so can most experienced developers. In fact unmaintainable human-written code is more often caused by organisational dysfunctions than by lack of individual competence.
Show threadSamskara

In my experience there’s usually a confluence of individual and institutional failures.

It usually goes like this.

  • hotshot developers is hired at company with crappy software
  • hotshot dev pitches a complete rewrite that will solve all issues
  • complete rewrite is rejected
  • hotshot dev shoehorns a new architecture and trendy dependencies into the old codebase
  • hotshot new dev leaves
  • software is more complex, inconsistent, and still crappy
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    Show threadViatorOmnium4d ago

    That’s one of the failure modes, good orgs would have design and review processes to stop it.

    There are other classics like arbitrary deadlines, conflicting and shifting requirements and product direction, perverse incentives, etc.

    I would even say that the AI craze is even a result of the latter.

    Show threadPapstJL4U4d ago
    Yeah, certain code developed organically (aka shifting demands). Devs know the code gets worse, but either by time or money they don’t have the option to review and redo code.