Post #1984962
2026-05-04 23:59 UTC
@nini @elizayer @hyc Oh my goodness, the contractors. It's not just the lack of institutional knowledge, it's also that many people don't seem to know how to write technical contracts.
So, we end up with software projects which are unmaintainable in various ways. From not having any monitoring to requiring a large extra payments (and possibly contract adjustments) to make operational changes.
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@nini@oldbytes.space 2026-05-05 19:43
@psa @elizayer @hyc And what's good at teaching people how to write technical contracts? Having people who know how to write them on staff and ready to share that wisdom. The thing about institutional knowledge is that it's codified human experience and skill, almost intergenerational between employees, all within the control of both you as the company and the workers in the company who shaped it. Outsource it and it's not yours anymore, it's now someone else's computer, someone else's code, someone else's engineers and whatever initial costs you thought you were making vanish real quick when you need something specific to your company.