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Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Post by infamouscow »

swed420 wrote: post #52
jofzar wrote: post #24

I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room. QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test) Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.

Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase. Long COVID can include iss…

How does this relate to TFA or GP's reply?

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Post by swed420 »

infamouscow wrote: post #81
swed420 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase. Long COVID can include iss…

How does this relate to TFA or GP's reply?

How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Post by gokuljs »

reactordev wrote: post #31
jofzar wrote: post #24

I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room. QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test) Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.

This is the correct take. QA was under attack the entire Agile(TM) cycle we just exited. Now with agentic coding, the only thing keeping it on the rails is TDD. Either you write the tests or you write the spec. You are also responsible for the output. Welcome to the New Age. Management is just as clueless as they have ever been (some more than others) and yet most of them lack the intelligence to know exactly how it…

True but for backend i just started building through TDD. this has helped a lot

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Post by gokuljs »

jakevoytko wrote: post #56

It's very simple; If you work 10x faster, you need to release 1/10th the bugs as before for the user's experience to have the same level of bugginess. And we're not incentivized for this; we're still exploring how to ship 10x faster and not exploring how to meet our users' needs 10x better (often conflating the two!) And I mean, go tell your leadership "Those projects that used to take us a full quarter? Now we can d…

This is why i dont work in a company when engineering manager does not have engineering background

Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

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Post by JohnFen »

reactordev wrote: post #75
JohnFen wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with most of what you said, but this... > At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. isn't as true as people think. I'm a graybeard and remain very much in demand, as do the majority of the graybeards I know.

YMMV but the vast majority of greybeards I know are unemployed or are doing other things than software engineering now.

What I have noticed is that graybeards who work for SV-style companies are treated as disposable, incompetent, etc. But outside of that, things aren't as bad as people think, and most dev jobs aren't in those companies.
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