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80% of programmers are NOT happy… why? - YouTube (youtube.com)

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[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 125 points 5 months ago (4 children)

No space and time for creativity or "doing it right", just do it fast, like yesterday also that feature we talked about three months ago? yeah, client also needs this added ...

Or even better: this is what up to 20 years of technical debt does to people

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also we don't make anything cool: just soulless corpo widgets for counting other widgets

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey I'll have you know I create tech debt all the time ... Oh you said cool

[–] iLove@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

This is gonna be my new answer to "What do you do?"

[–] rhacer@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been on my project for 23 years. I haven't written production code for ten of those years. There are still commits in the production branch with my name on them. Is both gratifying and mortifying.

I was talking with two other "old-timers" today about our inability to pay off tech debt because our teams are never given the time to do it

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 18 points 5 months ago

Thank you for writing this. You make me feel better about my lack of writing code.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

never given the time to do it

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see we work at the same company

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

You could say you're in good company

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or the quantitative "x bugs per week" KPI....

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

It's easier to fix bugs that you just introduced to be able to cover that KPI, too 🌚