this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
75 points (96.3% liked)
Programming
17313 readers
369 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's not the problem.
Software used to be an artisan job, a skilled engineer carefully sculpts a solution for a problem.
Management didn't have much to add there, or visibility, this was a world-breaking problem for them, where was their value?
The solution was issue-tracking, make every line of code a bureaucratic nightmare, ensure panopticon-like visibility for everything, that guaranteed the manager was always in control.
Progress slowed to a crawl, that's fine, you just need to hire more developers, hundreds, they scale, right?
Good programmers stick to startups because large companies are just well-paying torture firms. I wouldn't go back to Google for any amount of money, but I'll do a startup almost for free, because they let me write code.
I see you've met Jira. :)
There are far worse things in the darkness than jira :( but yes.