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The other day I was trying to reactivate Windows after swapping out my motherboard and processor. It told me to type my email address, then it asked me if I had access to my email address, showing me part of with with stars, and asked me to type it again. My company could have written that.
There is exactly one way to build good software, that is, to have one dude who knows everything about a component and controls what goes into it. That's what free software was like when it was good.
Unfortunately for managers, that makes the guy in charge of the component a de facto manager. Managers want to be managers. Meanwhile every developer wants to be a rock star like that one guy who can contribute to every codebase in the company. So patches come from incompetent programmers, are merged by incompetent peer reviewers instead of product owners, and the software comes out as trash.
But at least the process is dumbed down enough that whamen and Pajeet with a PhD in EE from IIT can be said to be contributing.
It would take one serious 32 year old White man and a team of four 16 year old White men to make everything my international, global team of 40 men and women with multiple academic degrees has done so far, in a few weeks.