alt Hacker News> and aims to drive time to market metrics down aggressively with AI.
Go fast and break things has been a mantra for how long?
I think a lot of the laments about "good" code are really about "ownership" - and as someone who spent most of my working career in OTHER peoples code bases I have seen some things. There are a lot of you who think that your code bases are "great" when they are NOT. Personal understanding is not a good measure of quality.
The increased cadence from AI is just speed running to the legacy code base.
The answer: express the concern, and reiterate it after every issue that arises because of increased complexity. Start building a plan on how to "unravel" the mess, how to migrate things in place, how to start drawing boundaries in your systems. The system is designed to reward heroes who fix problems - you want to be super man who stops the bridge from falling apart, not the engineer who pushes the costly fixes it before it does.
> Go fast and break things has been a mantra for how long?
Practically since eternity, but just as we learnt to manage current rate of "fast" and "breakage", somebody attached a solid booster behind us. So we're trying to understand what happened and what's happening and what will happen.
> I think a lot of the laments about "good" code are really about "ownership"
People owning what they did, have responsibility and initiative about doing better is always a good thing, yes.
> and as someone who spent most of my working career in OTHER peoples code bases I have seen some things.
I can understand that, I'm sorry you had to go through this.
> There are a lot of you who think that your code bases are "great" when they are NOT. Personal understanding is not a good measure of quality.
My codebases are as great as my knowledge. I love when someone reads my code and points where I f'ed up. I also love to show what I did has achieved something I was aiming for and discuss how to achieve it betterer.
> The system is designed to reward heroes who fix problems...
And this is the problem. Because I work silently and diligently build something looking unimpressive while working like an atomic clock without any problems.