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Anyone who had changed jobs because the software quality / technical debt was too bad? Do you agree with the article that the quality is becoming worse?
Here. The tooling was no fun as a consequence.
And yes, i agree that overall software quality goes downhill.
On my third job in the two years of my career now, and this one and the previous one both had mountains of technical debt. I am actively looking for job 4 now, but this time I'm a bit more cautious. (Job 2 counter-offered a 1000+€ raise and I turned it down for having basically the same wage at job 3 because it supposedly would be a better technical environment. It is not.)
The only common denominator between the last two is that both are small-ish and ERP software so idk. [Edit: also 'me', but for sure it can't be this bad everywhere right]
And for both it was caused by a very short-term way of looking at things. (Sure we could speed up development by X2, but that would take two months and the client wants this feature now)
The quality was always questionable in IT because of how projects are being managed. That's why you have consulting companies. The only difference you get from AI is companies trying to lower the wages and reduce costs to share profit with AI companies. Those tools bring no more value than hiring more junior / bootcamp level developers. The difference is from junior developer you can in a year or two get full team member but from AI you will get constraint amount of slop because it doesn't evolve.
lol duh