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0 pointsnharada4y ago0 comments

I think part of the reason is also that tech has matured to the point where it's so complex that nobody can handle it alone or even in a small group. A couple of people (no matter how supersmart) simply could not build and maintain even a single product of a large tech company.

Similar stuff happened with other technology too. A couple people could build an early airplane but a modern jetliner is so tremendously complex that you need years and a full company to get one out the door.

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tomc19854y ago· 3 in thread

And how much of that complexity is truly needed? Or is that another one of the lies proferred by its financiers?

ratww4y ago

Yep. IMO the largest part of the complexity today is caused by the things you mention in your post: trend-chasing among engineers, especially inexperienced ones, and non-engineers constantly bending the process, trying to make themselves useful and pushing too hard for useless micro-features and nice-to-haves, to the point the architecture of applications is compromised.

fleetwoodsnack4y ago

In the case of the airplane, it’s essential.

tomc19854y ago

We're not building airplanes though. We're building line-of-business apps -- it's like 80% CRUD

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