About Professional Software Development
4 hours ago
- #code quality
- #career growth
- #software development
- The author considers themselves a craftsman in software development, focusing on user needs, maintainable code, and polished experiences.
- Professional software development often neglects maintainability due to short job tenures and immediate delivery pressures.
- Job switching is seen as a profitable career path, avoiding the maintenance phase of software projects.
- The challenge lies in managing teams with differing priorities: quick delivery versus long-term maintainability.
- Vibe coding and LLMs exacerbate the issue by increasing output at the cost of code quality.
- The 'let it fail' approach is suggested as a way to highlight the consequences of poor technical decisions.
- The author remains skeptical about finding a counterexample to the strategy of producing average code and switching jobs for career growth.