alt Hacker NewsYou haven't worked at conservative software shops I guess. The last place I worked at had this huge song and dance with you trying to raise a PR that looked irrelevant to the task at hand would lead to meeting with your lead dev, your manager and your skip level as you tried to explain why the bug needs fixing...
The worst one was where I fixed a datetime bug and although it had been sending out false alerts, I was asked to dry run the 5 lines of code I changed, like a coding interview. In all this pressure I forgot what the code was meant to do, and was dismissed and asked to set up another meeting with an explanation of all the various cases that could happen...
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Let's spend $5m to have a meeting about why we can't spend $50.
Penny wise, pound foolish
The best is the explanations are in the PRs. They even have Claude these days to answer their questions... I swear, these people are more addicted to spending money than they are about making money.
holy shit that sounds like a nightmar-ish work environment
But, isn’t it our job to impress upon the managers the importance, in a certain regard?
Alternatively, what about just doing the right thing? Either you convince them to take this stuff seriously or you find alternate employment. How can you subject yourself to the moral degradation and conflict of principles? I could understand for someone with no other financial options, or in some sort of oppressive culture/economy. But most in our field probably don’t fall into those