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Kent Sharkey25-Oct-23 8:37
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NewsThe decline of software quality: A symptom of a weaker society Pin
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Jon McKee25-Oct-23 9:38
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Personally, I think it has to do with the shift from software designed by engineers to software designed by management. They decide what's "necessary" and "acceptable"; they decide the stack; they decide which engineers work on what; they decide everything now. And frankly they are not qualified to decide any of that.

It gets worse. What would you guess is the natural result of a system where software engineers are treated as little more than fingers to type whatever nonsense management wants? It's the devaluing of software talent. In fact, talent poses a problem for this new system because talent sees the flaws in what management wants. This inevitably leads to the talent being let go. To management, pointing out that zero-day that has serious impacts but would require equally serious amounts of development time to fix isn't improving things - it's problematic.

So now you've got systems designed by management, built by people that don't know any better, and shipped out to customers that have given up on ever receiving a quality software product.

And now management thinks AI is going to bail them out. Sorry, but even AI can't turn bad ideas into good implementations.

/rant

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