> Now we'll have code that the devs don't even know what it's doing internally.
I think that has already been true for some time for large projects continuously updated over a long time, and lots of developers entering and leaving the project throughout the years because nobody who has a choice wants to do that demoralizing job for long (I was one of them in the 1990s, the job was later given to an Indian H1B who could not switch to something better easily, not before putting in a few years of torture to have a better resume, and possibly a greencard).
Most famous post here, but I would like to see what e.g. Microsoft's devs would have to say, or Adobe's:
Such code has long been held together by the extensive test suites rather than intimate knowledge of how it all works.
The task of the individual developer is to close bug tickets and add features, not to produce an optimal solution, or even refactoring. They long ago gave up on that as taking too long.
I think that has already been true for some time for large projects continuously updated over a long time, and lots of developers entering and leaving the project throughout the years because nobody who has a choice wants to do that demoralizing job for long (I was one of them in the 1990s, the job was later given to an Indian H1B who could not switch to something better easily, not before putting in a few years of torture to have a better resume, and possibly a greencard).
Most famous post here, but I would like to see what e.g. Microsoft's devs would have to say, or Adobe's:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
Such code has long been held together by the extensive test suites rather than intimate knowledge of how it all works.
The task of the individual developer is to close bug tickets and add features, not to produce an optimal solution, or even refactoring. They long ago gave up on that as taking too long.