overall, I don’t feel like we’re being much more productive when you factor in quality and accountability
moribvndvs on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?”
Helped: Parallelize tasks, produce higher quality PoCs, offload narrow joyless tasks.
Got in the way: Exorbitant planning time, fixing minute mistakes, review bottleneck, exhaustion.
… I probably am, but everything I’ve read about and tried has not really moved the needle much and it’s introducing another dimension of exhaustion and frustration overall, I don’t feel like we’re being much more productive when you factor in quality and accountability (which should be a given, but this industry increasingly overtaken by a reckless philosophy of speed over everything else). I do think it has helped parallelize tasks, produce higher quality PoCs to explore more options and do it faster, offload joyless but necessary tasks that are narrow in scope and measurable, do exploratory work and act as a …