Post #2988013
2026-05-31 00:54 UTC
Do you worry that
> software engineering best practices that make sense in the context of large scale products
is just low effort busywork that people who privately resent their employer can log time against without controversy.
I guess I am reminded of Kay saying that we are neither doing science nor engineering, but rather we are a sort of designers.
What if more stuff is actually as erroneous as Agile Management Methodologies.
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@screwlisp@gamerplus.org 2026-05-31 01:07
For some reason and with some apologies, thinking about the shitbird code releases I looked over when it was auditioning to be bought, the revolutionary new scala methodologies and frameworks fallen and decaying around the revolutionary new ruby methodologies and frameworks and the python cruft, and I am sure there was something about hashicorp YAML changing everything in there too, or it would have fit in, or that was another company filled with the same detritus or Confluence(c)
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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-05-31 07:23
«Kay saying that we are neither doing science nor engineering, but rather we are a sort of designers.» See also Fred Brooks, _The Design of Design_. @screwlisp@gamerplus.org