alt Hacker NewsEver since the first programming language the goal was to make the work easier, although there are different kinds of "easy", and sometimes you end up worse off because tools don't live up to promises.
The human element is "What do I want?" You have ideas about how you need things to work. Some folks don't care much at all about how things work, just that they can shove a thing out the door and get paid with minimal effort. Sometimes their boss is completely in agreement. Sometimes things fall apart because nobody cared enough to bother, and sometimes even that doesn't matter, and everybody gets paid anyhow.
Sometimes you wish things mattered more, and sometimes they do.
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> Some folks don't care much at all about how things work, just that they can shove a thing out the door and get paid with minimal effort. Sometimes their boss is completely in agreement
The issue is not the quality per se (I can write hacky things if that’s needed). The issue is when you become responsible for the shoddy things that were rushed and is now hacks on pile of hacks.
> Ever since the first programming language the goal was to make the work easier
The historical evidence disagrees. The point of software is automation and the point of automation is elimination of labor by any means. Nowhere in that is easier.
Clearly developers have forgotten what automation is because the quest for easier satisfies the narcissism of people who lack the ability to see otherwise.