Only places that are making good money can afford to have overengineering.

Overengineering is more prevalent the more money a company makes and companies who overengineers will pay good money to keep the overengineering working.

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no_wizard 5 days ago | parent [-]

Something about my old CTO and VP of Eng I respected is they were still technical enough to call out this kind of thing. For as big as that company was they really held down complexity and overengineering to a real minimum.

Unfortunately the rest of the executive has leaned on them so hard about AI boosting productivity they aren’t able to avoid thst becoming a mess

	▲	DanielHB 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is a shame that so many companies try to scale by just hiring a lot of people, the more people you have in a single project the more overengineering you will end up with. Some of it is consequence of managing so many individual contributors, I still believe a lot of companies use microservice stuff as a way to scale to more teams than to more scalability/reliability/observability. Some of it is just people coming up with clever solutions (and leaving after the fact) and a lot from resume-driven development.
	▲	jrs235 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In other words they believed in principles other than increasing personal power