i wish this was fake https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1958854561579638960 oh my fucking god

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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because their boss is an idiot who will yell at them if they don’t.

If you pay by the update, devs will update their way to a nice payday .

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    pay by the update

    Uh, how do you imagine that would work? Are you saying this is contract work?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Nah. It’s most likely not that direct. If the boss makes it clear that they measure productivity by blindly adhering to some dumb metric (number of updates , kloc, number of bugfixes) then the devs will find a way to max out that stat, to get bonuses, promos, etc.

    As much as the author has shown his ass, this is the classic comic that comes to mind https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/k5hka0/bug_free_programs_a_dilbert_classic/

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