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There was a lot of pressure in the Perl community to write things as succinctly as possible instead of as maintainably and understandably. That’s not realistic for use in a field w…

The guy is such a web zealot that he refuses to make the sensible engineering tradeoff that favors speed and offline capabilities over platform ubiquity. Most sane people would wri…

So this person has never been a developer?

Traditional agile practices always sucked and were beyond problematic. Maybe the speed of AI is just making it more apparent.

It's actually pretty amazing that you extracted the very worst, most very destructive practices and ideologies of agile and put it into a package that would allow toxic managements…

I maintain a compendium of developers' best negative comments about agile https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Here's what I've learned from maintaing th…

I maintain a compendium of 100's of the best developer comments about agile. Check it out and make your own conclusions. https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README…

I worked on a mobile app dev team that tried to Ui logic with the backend. With many of the justifications you mentioned being justifications for doing it that way. White labelling…

There are no agile trainings, only agile indoctrinations. Not that you can't have a bit of fun with them (at your own risk). 1. Ask if they've worked as a professional software dev…

Ideally you should use types, but if you have to use any because of some complicated situation where the compiler’s bitching, it’s no big deal. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a …

Quite a few experienced developers contributed their opinions on why found agile so problem. Check it out https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Agile has …

Is AI being used to moderate comments now on HN? I ask because I don’t find this comment to be particularly moderation-worthy according to most modern standards of flamebait.

1. Options: give them the answer they’re looking for, even if its bullshit. 2. Stonewall and give them answers so confusing and incongruent they’ll eventually stop asking.

Here’s a compilation of hundreds of social media comments explaining why agile/scrum is so problematic https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

My problem is not whether I “like” management’s tradeoffs they force me as a developer to make; my problem is that managements typically don’t take accountability for choosing to m…

Another from AITOW “I regularly ask ‘Why are we running a marathon in a thousand sprints?’. Besides tech debt, a concern I have that I don't see brought up is burn out. With Scrum,…

Another from “Agile In Their Own Words” “My experience shows that proper testing and documentation is the first thing that management wants taken out of the story, often with the e…

From “Agile In Their Own Words”, https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... “One aspect of agile, and of SCRUM in particular, is that the team is expected to '…

Testimony from dozens upon dozens of developers that think that scrum is useless, toxic bullshit: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

And here is a list of every rebuttal you could give them: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

I fail to see the problem with that

These designs are usually added to show the executives of the company that a branch of the org chart and its Important People can "add value". Conversely, the fastest way to turn a…

I've come to understand that the most important part of any software project is the Critical Twenty, the first 20% of the project's timeline where developers' need to do things lik…