Software Disenchantment
tonsky.me
Recently re-discovered this gem of a blog post, written in 2018 by Nikita Propokov, about his disenchantment with the state of modern software. Do you think it's still relevant today (perhaps more/less so than it was when it was written)?
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7 years ago when I started my career, My first project we sat down and designed the program and interfaces.
Today, we implement features using best practices, never sitting down to design and end up accumulating technical debt that we don't have funds or time to go back and fix.
Time to market is proportional to time to obsoletence. We don't design for longevity anymore :(
My current project is building a (almost) 1gb Java rich client which takes around 2minites to load... while it's merely a gui with some small client to client capabilities. The technical debt is insane, and it's only getting worse because neither can they afford to rebuild it from scratch.
In similar boat(s) too. Like watching a train wreck.