> We do not need these crazy high release speeds with daily updates all over the stack
Although I like this, but I understand this is not easily achievable in companies where everyone is trying hard to grab the part of the market and AI FOMO and push by investors to release AI features
Executives want to see numbers go up, even if it's a vanity metric like LOC or PRs merged.
It feels we're mostly building liabilities, rather than assets.
Management will later grind us to fix it all, as this will trigger a huge crisis as nothing works anymore, and we will have to do it and pretend they didn't create the problems themselves, so we keep our jobs, in the most optimistic scenario.
Companies with good tech leadership will thrive in that environment, but they are so few...
>We do not need these crazy high release speeds with daily updates all over the stack, then you should just slow down and do better QA.
Too late now. Most places have been aggressively cutting QA for years. It's easier to mess up and apologize over doing it right.
> We do not need these crazy high release speeds with daily updates all over the stack
Although I like this, but I understand this is not easily achievable in companies where everyone is trying hard to grab the part of the market and AI FOMO and push by investors to release AI features
> The number of supply chain attacks and the blast radius as a result of these is ever increasing
Holy vague post... can u be specific?
This isnt the problem, the problem is open source software became a status marker/way to build a company.
We can't slow down.
Executives want to see numbers go up, even if it's a vanity metric like LOC or PRs merged.
It feels we're mostly building liabilities, rather than assets.
Management will later grind us to fix it all, as this will trigger a huge crisis as nothing works anymore, and we will have to do it and pretend they didn't create the problems themselves, so we keep our jobs, in the most optimistic scenario.
Companies with good tech leadership will thrive in that environment, but they are so few...