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1455 points nromiun | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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supportengineer ◴[30 Aug 25 15:32 UTC] No.45075501[source]▶
Large software projects built by humans will always be doomed to fail, because humans like to build the new, and nobody likes to maintain the old.
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1. tenacious_tuna ◴[30 Aug 25 17:56 UTC] No.45076683[source]▶
I've very much enjoyed maintaining or optimizing or hardening existing systems--I can just never convince my leadership to let me do that.

My current org has a terrible case of not-invented-here syndrome, and it's so easy to pitch new projects that solve something that there's already an existing tool for, or building a new feature. We would love to spend time just working within our existing systems and fixing crap abstractions we made under the deadline-gun, but we're not "allowed" to.

> [...] humans like to build the new, and nobody likes to maintain the old

I think this is certainly true at organizational scale, but most of the people I've met are change-resistant overall.