| ▲ | jofzar 7 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room. QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test) Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | cutterl6 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There's a much larger elephant in the room | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | reactordev 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is the correct take. QA was under attack the entire Agile(TM) cycle we just exited. Now with agentic coding, the only thing keeping it on the rails is TDD. Either you write the tests or you write the spec. You are also responsible for the output. Welcome to the New Age. Management is just as clueless as they have ever been (some more than others) and yet most of them lack the intelligence to know exactly how it all works. Hell, there’s still plenty of engineers that don’t know how it all works. Eventually, when you come to understanding or you reach that “enlightenment” stage, no corporate BS will penetrate you and you’ll forever see past their shenanigans. At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. So they cut out anyone who knows the BS to bring in folks who believe the BS so they can continue shipping BS. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | swed420 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase. Long COVID can include issues with memory and risk taking. https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/rsch-new-study-... I don't think software is the only field impacted by this, but it's undoubtedly one of them considering how few people take proper precautions via regular N95 usage. COVID in general is also heavily politicized (as seen in the silent downvotes), and the back-to-normal agenda was forced by capital interests, including tactics like mass disinformation campaigns. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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