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Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

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177 points foxfired | 1 comments | 07 Apr 25 20:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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vanschelven ◴[08 Apr 25 06:50 UTC] No.43619010[source]▶
Personally I've never found it a problem to just fix things that I see are broken, as a dev, without PM approval, even in very dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes it even goes noticed and people applaud you for it.

In other words: though I acknowledge that the phenomenon described in the article is real, I sometimes feel it's just because developers accept a reality that doesn't need to be accepted.

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1. Clubber ◴[09 Apr 25 13:14 UTC] No.43631697[source]▶
>Personally I've never found it a problem to just fix things that I see are broken, as a dev, without PM approval, even in very dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes it even goes noticed and people applaud you for it.

It's a lot easier when you're not shoving out a release every 2 weeks. When I worked at a company with quarterly releases, the standing order was fix any bug you see and we saw drastic improvements after just a few releases.