i've said this before but i'm gonna say it again: it's *fascinating* watching the software industry rediscover why best practices exist in real time

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

i've said this before but i'm gonna say it again: it's *fascinating* watching the software industry rediscover why best practices exist in real time

[ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu]

@eniko This is so similar to how it went with cryptocurrency and the finance sector...

[oschonrock@mastodon.social]

@eniko

Yeah. It's a slow motion car crash...

[abhayakara@mastodon.nl]

@eniko

"Fascinating" is a really restrained word to use here—congratulations!

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@abhayakara i'm a very restrained kind of person

[v_mags_fox@meow.social]

@eniko Almost like boring non-coding things such as requirements gathering, systems analysis, testing, documentation, etc, are actually important.

[essjayjay@tech.lgbt]

@eniko

Sadly though that 'rediscover' has not yet extended to the idiocy of saving project budget and time by cutting down on test engineers.

[dvshkn@social.treehouse.systems]

@eniko When the dust settles there needs to be an accounting of which practices were brought back and which ones were not brought back. We focus a lot on the former and miss the latter.

[supervinh47@mastodon.social]

@eniko is giving "Reinventing the seatbelt"

[sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club]

@eniko It's like an inverse NIH syndrome for an entire industry.

[brad@m.toad.host]

@eniko watching people obstinately rebuild technology from first principles as they annihilate stability in extant software is very frustrating

[Guest]

@eniko AI : software :: cryptocurrency : finance

[marsroverdriver@deepspace.social]

@eniko Same thing with parents rediscovering the benefits of vaccinations.

[greenskyoverme@ohai.social]

@eniko Funny how letting fancy autocomplete deploy to production causes problems ... who woulda thunk?