We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
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Re: We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
#2I wasted 80% of my time on this article page dodging lazy loaded ads, dismissing cookie banners, and subscribe now overlay modals.
Re: We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
#3Those are rookie numbers. With a little Kubernetes, we can get them way up.
So much of the incentive structure in software companies is to ship new features. Maintaining existing ones or fixing bugs is a career dead end for software engineers and managers. No wonder so much stuff is broken and slow.
Call me cynical, but from a dollars point of view this seems to be what customers want.
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#4Up to?
Re: We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
#5The only bit of info/detail:
> The problems most often experienced by the participants included: "the system was slow," "the system froze temporarily," "the system crashed," "it is difficult to find things." The participants had backgrounds such as student, accountant, consultant, but several of them actually worked in the IT industry.
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#6This seems like a load of crap.
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#8Finally, a chance to say what I really think about computers!
I feel that the majority of time working with computers is not actually computing numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication) but LOGISTICS.
Logging into systems, Moving data around in memory and between servers, into registers for a function call, to and from a REST API, installing packages, finding dependencies, chaining together library functions.
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#9Isn't that expected and natural?
As performance of a system is being optimized, the relative size of un-optimizable parts goes up.
Sure, your banking app crashes sometimes and annoys you. How about you delete it and instead take a bus to a postal office to pay your bills this way - no annoying apps involved, it will just take 1h instead of 1m.
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#10And this is why I do not fear unemployment or AI. There will always be work for someone who can be asked to build over complicated software and debug it.