In about five years from now, there will be so much garbage code with unfixable bugs. It’s difficult for me to imagine what kind of collapse this will cause. Or how we will recover from it, which might take another decade. Fortunately we might be fighting eachother with spears over fresh water by then, so we will have bigger problems to not solve.
I am a software developer, and there’s absolutely been times where a temp fix becomes permanent, but I’ve also had times where my boss has told me to clean up tech debt or I’ve been “look this whole chunk of code is both wrong and unmaintainable” (wrong as in it didn’t do the thing correctly but it looked correctish) and I’ve been allowed to just rewrite the broken code from scratch.
Idk, I feel like also at a certain point the codes bugs might be so obvious and troublesome that companies are forced to actually deal with the problem code and when that happens will be different for every company and every program.
In about five years from now, there will be so much garbage code with unfixable bugs. It’s difficult for me to imagine what kind of collapse this will cause. Or how we will recover from it, which might take another decade. Fortunately we might be fighting eachother with spears over fresh water by then, so we will have bigger problems to not solve.
I’d say be hopeful, but I don’t know.
I am a software developer, and there’s absolutely been times where a temp fix becomes permanent, but I’ve also had times where my boss has told me to clean up tech debt or I’ve been “look this whole chunk of code is both wrong and unmaintainable” (wrong as in it didn’t do the thing correctly but it looked correctish) and I’ve been allowed to just rewrite the broken code from scratch.
Idk, I feel like also at a certain point the codes bugs might be so obvious and troublesome that companies are forced to actually deal with the problem code and when that happens will be different for every company and every program.