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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.devSoftware Disenchantment
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    9 months ago

    That’s not the problem.

    Software used to be an artisan job, a skilled engineer carefully sculpts a solution for a problem.

    Management didn’t have much to add there, or visibility, this was a world-breaking problem for them, where was their value?

    The solution was issue-tracking, make every line of code a bureaucratic nightmare, ensure panopticon-like visibility for everything, that guaranteed the manager was always in control.

    Progress slowed to a crawl, that’s fine, you just need to hire more developers, hundreds, they scale, right?

    Good programmers stick to startups because large companies are just well-paying torture firms. I wouldn’t go back to Google for any amount of money, but I’ll do a startup almost for free, because they let me write code.


  • Drones, yes. Infantry? Less so.

    Dudes have to be well prepared, equipped, have solid Intel and the tanker has to either be stupid or have bad leadership.

    The tanks should keep their distance and support infantry while keeping a look out on thermal for anything that gets too close. They have emergency features like trophy (it’s a explosion that shoots down missiles) but mostly they wait for infantry to find targets for them to blow up.

    In tank-tank combat they often let their infantry fall back while they lock on at range and hope their gunnery is better.