We are destroying software

February 11, 2025

My thoughts

Antirez listing all the ways we are destroying software.

A few that resonate the most with me:

  • We are destroying software pushing for rewrites of things that work.
  • We are destroying software claiming that code comments are useless.
  • We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.
  • We are destroying software by always thinking that the de-facto standard for XYZ is better than what we can do, tailored specifically for our use case.

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