> your name will be cursed by the poor souls who forever have to maintain your mess.
That's fine as long as it generated jobs.
That's fine as long as it generated jobs.
Yes, we developers sometimes focus on making the code perfect, beyond the point where there's an actual business case. So we need to be reminded that the code serves the business, not vice versa.
But really. Bad enough code is a liability to the business. You can't add features to make the customers happy, you get bugs you don't understand, it runs really slowly, etc.
The real trick is determining, with an intelligent conversation between developers and business people, what's good enough.
IT is expensive says Management.
So they offshore.
Job is gone.
Once industry sang the same song, we're done. No more IT practitioners in the US.
The shift is happening right now and it happens in a similar fashion: nobody feels it yet but suddenly the rug under them is gone one day.
Silicon Valley is an exception. There are always great companies like Apple and Google. And there are those poor startups that try to overwork the so-called "energetic, genius, creative" fresh-grads.
But the turn-over/turn-around rate is very high.
Stick long enough in this industry and we'll start seeing patterns.