alt Hacker NewsThey’ll care when nothing works, nobody seems able to fix it, building new features takes forever and every change breaks something somewhere else.
This was already happening before. But now, a lot more companies that previously might have taken many years to reach an unmaintainable state can now get there in just a few months.
My coworkers and I give it 12-24 months before we have a total collapse due to unmaintainable slop and good people leaving. Generally there's a feeling that this will sink a lot of bigger companies.