There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix. If deadlines are causing those stopgaps, the aggressive deadlines are the root problem.

> There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.

That should be one of those Tech culture “laws.”

I suspect that the dependapocalyse is a significant factor. When every part of an operation has multiple context rebuilds, and resources are not shared across module boundaries, you get inefficient behavior.

But I’m skeptical that there’s a will to rethink that.

No deadline, no product.

Shipping is very important, sometimes more important than what you ship :)

Honestly, after years of seeing this play out, a lot of devs really lack the judgement to know when something is good enough to deliver and will endlessly delay projects to “ do the right thing”

In my experience, many of those deadlines are commonly the only reason the company continues to exist as well.

The root of the problem is much more deeply ingrained in our economic system.