Is anyone noticing more bugs across the web and in software in general? Our team’s been seeing bugs across cloudflare, GitHub UI (we’ve been seeing the pink unicorn a lot), VS Code randomly breaking. As more teams adopt AI, is this this the norm? Surely this can’t be sustainable long term.
How are your daily standups run? Yeah, some people throw in blockers here and there but it’s really just people talking about how productive they were the day before by listing their accomplishments. It’s not the time or place for that. I think stand ups should just be revised to “is there anything stopping you from during your work that the entire team needs to know”?
In my ten years as a software engineer, I’ve discovered a bizarre trend that smooth projects often get less recognition than chaotic ones. It may be due to a perception that it must have been an easy project if it was so smooth. On the other hand, projects with multiple day follows, dramatic reverts, etc get a ton more visibility. Have others seen this on their organization?
Github has been a trash fire for a while now. Ghostty and Zig are two projects I can immediately think of that have left in recent times. This isn't sustainable but it will be the way until enough people stop accepting slop as the cost of doing business.
This is what you get when you allow software developers with only three years experience to be considered "senior". It is like referring to a military officer with 3 years experience as "general" or "admiral" - it screams with disrespect for the profession. What is the politically correct term for dissing an entire profession? "thought-impared"?
Oh and fundamentally... as long as leadership sees engineering and maintenance as a cost centre they're going to try and reduce costs as much as possible there. They'll try and minimise the work done in those areas entirely.