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> The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft, creating a dangerous combination of having enough merit to ship but not enough interest to make what they ship _good_.

i think i fall into this bucket. our "leaders" and executives have told us they dont care about 'shipping good' . we are simply responding to incentives.

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They’ll care when nothing works, nobody seems able to fix it, building new features takes forever and every change breaks something somewhere else.

This was already happening before. But now, a lot more companies that previously might have taken many years to reach an unmaintainable state can now get there in just a few months.

My coworkers and I give it 12-24 months before we have a total collapse due to unmaintainable slop and good people leaving. Generally there's a feeling that this will sink a lot of bigger companies.

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