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Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don't recognize catastrophic issues until it's too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares "for now" that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes... Ugh. Nightmare fuel.
Interesting. Same in construction industry!
There's nothing as permanent as a temporary fix.
The new twist to this story is those poorly-trained devs are given robot powerloaders for producing code now so they can slop out each teetering jenga block that much faster
This, and all the people coming and going leaving undocumented Jenga parts behind.
Love this metaphor :)
I'm terrified I'll never be able to find somewhere to work where this isn't the case. Deeply terrified.
I’ve been around a long time, and I have bad news for you….