Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Just a fancier way of saying “quick and dirty”. Couldn’t be bothered to build a proper fix, so I just went with whatever trashy hack that just barely gets the job done.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Quite often (or maybe even most often), but there’s also the realities of simply having to choose a path knowing it will change in 2-5 years.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I’ve seen that first hand. Workers keep complaining how badly the engineers designed some machine. When I talked to the engineer who designed it, he told me it was fine 10 years ago, but many things have changed since then. Nowadays, the machine is sitting in a place where it wasn’t designed to sit and it’s doing things it wasn’t designed to do.