alt Hacker News>The trillion dollar question is how you do this, if your employees do not care (they are optimising for salary & time spent not code quality)
Sounds like there is a compensation problem then.
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CodingJeebus • today at 1:21 PM
Disagree, throwing more money at devs hoping it will improve quality while continuing to take away their authority will only perpetuate the slop machine.
It's not that hard: treat people with dignity and take their contributions seriously, not as a disposable meat mass. In fact, not only will this improve code quality, it's likely to improve employee retention too.
Sounds like a culture problem. I’ve never had a team I lead not give a shit. Even if the project is dumb (some projects are dumb), there’s enough pride in competence and desire not to dump garbage on the people around you to ensure they at least want to try.