Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
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#2Having a culture of not ever writing tests and actively disallowing them is so insane I can't even imagine why there's anything else in this post
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#3I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence.
Wildly swinging dogmatism on how to do software development that’s so wrong you have to throw it all away - then repeating this failure loop multiple times.
Doesn’t inspire any confidence in the person I wouldn’t get them to lead a project.
Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.
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#4Next is such a dumpster fire. So much wasted effort due to the Node ecosystem never developing a universal batteries included framework like Rails or Django.
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#6I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence. Wildly swinging dogmatism on how to do software development that’s so wrong you have to throw it all away - then repeating this failure loop multiple times. Doesn’t inspire any confidence in the person I wouldn’t get them to lead a project. Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.
"bugs were appearing everywhere out of the blue. The codebase was a huge mess of nulls, undefined behaviour, bad error handling. It was so bad that we actually lost a client over this."
Especially wild considering their product is literally an automated bug finder lol.
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#7Pearls.
> I would NOT allow people to write tests
> now [...] we started with tests from the ground up
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#8Tests are most useful for regression detection, so it's a good instinct to not add them when you're primarily exploring. Once you've decided to switch to exploitation, though, regression will hurt. I think it's just a classic 0 to 0.1 not being the same thing as 0.1 to 1.
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#9Next is such a dumpster fire. So much wasted effort due to the Node ecosystem never developing a universal batteries included framework like Rails or Django.
Which in turn were only invented because millennials would not be caught dead writing Java and JSP. We had all this shit figured out by the late nineties and 90% of what is accomplished on the web today was entirely possible and well integrated in Java app servers.
This whole business is a fashion industry.
I'm for one grateful for LLMs because for the first time in around 30 years there is actually genuine novelty to explore in software engineering. Ruby and nodejs weren't it.
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#10I wouldn’t admit to this level of frankly incompetence. Wildly swinging dogmatism on how to do software development that’s so wrong you have to throw it all away - then repeating this failure loop multiple times. Doesn’t inspire any confidence in the person I wouldn’t get them to lead a project. Why would you be so loud and proud about all this.
I think there's a real possibility this is a "no such thing as bad publicity" stunt.