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Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

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Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#11

Post by jjmarr »

dexwiz wrote: post #3

No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.

I don't get why people hate on post-structuralism.

The process of reality getting abstracted to the point abstractions stop being representative of reality is extremely common in software engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

A hyperreal workplace is one where representations of reality take precedence over reality itself, and the reality of a situation ceases to have meaning. i.e. One where people chase metrics for the sake of metrics, instead of understanding that issue count is supposed to reflect the underlying code quality, and code quality should always take priority over the representation.

The broader philosophical context is relevant because it shows the broader cultural problem instead of assuming the issue is limited to a single tool.

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#13

Post by elpocko »

>SonarQube (formerly Sonar) is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs and code smells on 29 programming languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonarQube

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#14

Post by eigenvalue »

This sounds truly hellish, like being controlled by a stupid robot straight out of Kafka's "The Trial." They should allow special one off exception that are documented with a comment, similar to how you can disable Ruff warnings in python code for a single like

  # noqa: F401

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#15

Post by pdonis »

jjmarr wrote: post #11
dexwiz wrote: post #3

No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.

I don't get why people hate on post-structuralism. The process of reality getting abstracted to the point abstractions stop being representative of reality is extremely common in software engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality A hyperreal workplace is one where representations of reality take precedence over reality itself, and the reality of a situation ceases to have meaning. i.e. One where people…

> I don't get why people hate on post-structuralism.

Because, rather than recognize that overdoing abstractions is a thing and reminding people that there is always reality out there that won't bend to your wishes, post-modernism (which is the term the GP used) tells people that there is no reality out there, it's all just human-created abstractions, and anyone who tries to push back because reality is just insufficiently post-modernist.

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#16

Post by jimbokun »

> In my case, I have a superior who administers Sonar and is, let’s say, completely committed to it. For any ‘exception granted’ we would have to book time with them days in advance then white-board the reason why Sonar is wrong, or produce a sample program - who has got time for that with tight deadlines?

This superior (sic) is what a negative productivity employee looks like.

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#18

Post by Spooky23 »

jjmarr wrote: post #11
dexwiz wrote: post #3

No matter the industry, it sucks to have someone managing by dashboard. In classic post modernism, the signifier replaces the signified. If anything, it’s a great signal to the employee that it’s time to start looking elsewhere.

I don't get why people hate on post-structuralism. The process of reality getting abstracted to the point abstractions stop being representative of reality is extremely common in software engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality A hyperreal workplace is one where representations of reality take precedence over reality itself, and the reality of a situation ceases to have meaning. i.e. One where people…

You need to learn to game it. People care about this stuff are usually stupid. When I led a large support organization I had an SVP who really cared about open incident duration.

His pattern for giving a fuck was predictable. My strategy was to hold certain tickets in an undead state (not impacting the metric), then reopen them and close them, demonstrating a metric improvement.

He got his improvement and big shot street cred, users weren’t impacted, and I didn’t have to ruin support to try to grind out small gains.

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#19

Post by marcosdumay »

Juliate wrote: post #4

The root issue is the superior not having a clue. Sonar in this case, is sadly enabling this type of superior to be even more harmful, not to the developers only, but to the actual business of the company. And Sonar is far from being alone in this. JIRA is the most glaring example I can think of. Growing companies implement cargo-culted tools without understanding the needs and requirements, and let themselves drift…

Yes... but how often have you experienced a non-clueless linter?

Some tools bias people into doing bad things. It's not exactly the tools fault, and they may even have good uses (like Bash linters), but tools guide people and it's good to remind people not to follow.

Re: Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

#20

Post by EricRiese »

eigenvalue wrote: post #14

This sounds truly hellish, like being controlled by a stupid robot straight out of Kafka's "The Trial." They should allow special one off exception that are documented with a comment, similar to how you can disable Ruff warnings in python code for a single like # noqa: F401

They do

// Nosonar

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