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> in 2014, they eliminated the software developer in test role, and software developers roles were supposed to make up the difference

Unfortunately, this was a widespread industry trend

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I remember a Yahoo article where they supported getting rid of their testers as the metrics showed the number of new bugs was greatly reduced after. It left me wondering why they were paying those testers to put the bugs in the software in the first place.

Wow, that's not unlike the contemporary decommissioning of systems to monitor air pollution.

Some people are just natural problem solvers

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