7/15/2026 at 2:18:34 PM
I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room.QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test)
Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.
by jofzar
7/15/2026 at 2:21:13 PM
There's a much larger elephant in the roomby cutterl6
7/15/2026 at 2:58:51 PM
At this point there's a room in the elephant.by mstaoru
7/15/2026 at 9:10:34 PM
No room anymore, just a massive elephantby dgellow
7/15/2026 at 10:07:47 PM
It's elephants all the way down.by cheschire
7/15/2026 at 2:29:09 PM
Ooh ohh Ohh I think I know what it is!by adverbly
7/15/2026 at 2:45:15 PM
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7/15/2026 at 5:02:51 PM
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7/15/2026 at 5:19:16 PM
[flagged]by louiev
7/15/2026 at 2:23:04 PM
This is the correct take. QA was under attack the entire Agile(TM) cycle we just exited. Now with agentic coding, the only thing keeping it on the rails is TDD. Either you write the tests or you write the spec.You are also responsible for the output. Welcome to the New Age. Management is just as clueless as they have ever been (some more than others) and yet most of them lack the intelligence to know exactly how it all works. Hell, there’s still plenty of engineers that don’t know how it all works.
Eventually, when you come to understanding or you reach that “enlightenment” stage, no corporate BS will penetrate you and you’ll forever see past their shenanigans. At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. So they cut out anyone who knows the BS to bring in folks who believe the BS so they can continue shipping BS.
by reactordev
7/15/2026 at 2:51:06 PM
I agree with most of what you said, but this...> At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable.
isn't as true as people think. I'm a graybeard and remain very much in demand, as do the majority of the graybeards I know.
by JohnFen
7/15/2026 at 5:41:51 PM
YMMV but the vast majority of greybeards I know are unemployed or are doing other things than software engineering now.by reactordev
7/15/2026 at 8:32:59 PM
What I have noticed is that graybeards who work for SV-style companies are treated as disposable, incompetent, etc. But outside of that, things aren't as bad as people think, and most dev jobs aren't in those companies.by JohnFen
7/15/2026 at 8:28:55 PM
True but for backend i just started building through TDD. this has helped a lotby gokuljs
7/15/2026 at 2:53:26 PM
Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase.Long COVID can include issues with memory and risk taking.
https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/rsch-new-study-...
I don't think software is the only field impacted by this, but it's undoubtedly one of them considering how few people take proper precautions via regular N95 usage.
COVID in general is also heavily politicized (as seen in the silent downvotes), and the back-to-normal agenda was forced by capital interests, including tactics like mass disinformation campaigns.
by swed420
7/15/2026 at 6:54:29 PM
How does this relate to TFA or GP's reply?by infamouscow
7/15/2026 at 7:24:11 PM
How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?by swed420
7/15/2026 at 9:31:04 PM
Respectfully, that's a bit of a stretch. Impaired human memory and increased risk taking are coefficients that would impact far more industries than software. I think the notion is that software, in particular, seems buggier. IF these side effects of repeated COVID infection have anything to do with software bugs, I would think it's contribution would be dramatically smaller than say LLM assisted coding, rapid merging of code, lack of human review.Just a couple of examples:
- Linux kernel ai commits (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ai-submissions-to-linux-hits-...)
- Omarchy 4 30k lines of ai generated code (https://x.com/dhh/status/2057907663967543618)
by grepex
7/15/2026 at 9:38:48 PM
False dichotomy. There's no reason it couldn't impact software as well as other things. Also, it's obviously not the only acting force.by swed420
7/15/2026 at 5:03:22 PM
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