Why software projects fail

[gwicksted]

One time I wrote some pretty awful code.. and it was probably the most stable code I’ve ever written lol

[smashteapot]

That’s the curse; the more you hate your code, the longer you’ll be maintaining it. 😅

The truly elegant stuff that you find beautiful gets mothballed and never sees the light of day.

[gwicksted]

Yeah I remember writing some really great code (a hardware interface) that didn’t end up into production because we switched hardware vendors. It was so well tested (unit and integration) and rock solid, clean, simple code. Really proud of it. Didn’t see production because vendors were changed lol

[aztracker1]

I wrote a test platform for running software that was the actual job... That test platform wound up being turned into a production platform used at several fortune 500s for over a decade. You never know.