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Sumocat ,
@Sumocat@lemmy.world avatar

My uncle was in that story. Decades ago, he told his boss a program would stop working in eight years (8-bit limitation, yeah, that long ago). His boss told him to ship it because they weren’t going to be there in eight years. Sure enough, they weren’t. Eight years later, their IT guy contacted my uncle because he couldn’t figure out why it stopped working, and my uncle showed him the math.

Ferrous ,

Sounds like your uncle did end up working for the company again, if only for an hour or day.

xmunk ,

Hopefully at a really high hourly rate!

lorty ,
@lorty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Blame whoever implemented it if you want, but 9 times out of 10 it’s management that’s pushing for a quick fix.

arendjr ,

Nah, more senior devs often also advocate for the quick fix, for the simple reason that the economics of a “proper” fix simply don’t add up, especially when you don’t know how much value such a fix would bring anyway. If you’re always looking to create “proper” solutions in hopes of someone in the future thanking you for it, it most likely means your priorities aren’t where they should be and it’s very unlikely someone will thank you for it.

I even wrote a blog on this topic: arendjr.nl/…/mvp-the-most-valuable-programmer/

mariusafa ,

I hate this kind of practice. It shows no empathy for the guy that will have to fix it.

Restaldt ,

Sounds like the corporation should have paid the first guys more

mariusafa ,

He is making the job worse for his team not his corporation. That’s not the way to deal with that.

PoopingCough ,

The sense of obligation towards your coworkers is something companies absolutely abuse and exploit. I’m not saying don’t have empathy for your fellow human, but people aren’t typically incentivized to use best possible solutions if they take more work outside of this obligation so you have to be careful to not let yourself be exploited because of it.

l_b_i ,
@l_b_i@yiffit.net avatar

the next dev, Hey this obscure feature probably doesn’t work, should I fix it… No, I’ll just patch “temporary-fix-don’t-use” and let the next guy fix it properly.

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