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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only engineering documentation was as precise and comprehensive as this meme claims...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a managerial function involving skill and time and therefore money, but if it doesn't directly translate into profits for the corporation, then who has interest in that kind of investment these days?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh but don't worry, there's plenty of money to do it twice!

[–] agent_flounder 11 points 9 months ago

That's tomorrow's money though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Plenty of money exists yes, but there is no "will" to use it in this manner - and those who would, get fired or passed over for promotion by those who move fast & break things. Stock dividends rather than programmer salaries - see e.g. all of the tech sector doing multiple rounds of layoffs rather than make documentation or do anything close to proper maintenance for the things that were just built. However, those are (always) problems for the next CEO to have to worry about.