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Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them (piechowski.io)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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A client’s team spent a full week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. That’s what I call codebase drag: when the codebase makes every task take longer than it should. It doesn’t show up in any dashboard or sprint report.

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

To quote my manager from today: “I don’t want us to spin our wheels and turn this into a month long effort”

The request is to effectively rearchitect a foundational part of the system. It’s a large lift project that should take weeks.

Of course I pushed back, I have good rapport with him and I’m not worried about getting fired over this. Not everyone has that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    “This isn’t a bazaar. We don’t haggle over deadlines. We professionally estimate them.”

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