Post #2189085
2026-04-03 14:40 UTC
@glyph@mastodon.social Yeah, that’s one conclusion I’m coming to thanks to this discussion. I was aware of the slipperiness of “quality”, and was kinda doing that deliberately because exploring weather quality matters is (to me) more interesting than defining quality precisely. But what I hadn’t noticed was that “done” was just as slippery — and in order for quality (whatever definition) not to matter, there has to be no maintenance, and that requires “done” to actually be a thing.
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@jacob@social.jacobian.org 2026-04-03 14:43
@glyph@mastodon.social (Tho - I think software engineering would be in a better place if “done” was more common. Like, is 80% of the TCO of a bridge in maintenance? I sort of doubt it. There are times when I think that calling it software “engineering” is a bit of a joke.)