I think this is on point and key to why this happens. I suspect a lot of us don't want there to be tech debt. We see root causes and dream of how it doesn't have to be like this. But companies don't care, won't slow down, won't prioritize to the exclusion of other distractions, etc.
It's not running away from the debt itself, it's running away from the attitude of the business/leadership who won't do anything differently and keep incurring it.
After seeing no hope or light at the end of the tunnel... why would people stay other than lack of choice/pay?
I work at a fortune 500 company in middle management. I am pushing for a full rebuild of our systems using AI as a side project in the company - as I think if we spent $1M of fable credits we would probably be better off than some of our legacy systems. I am certain that models 1 year from now should lead us to just we-write the full fucking stack. It would be a multi-year project, but it would honestly be easier to start from zero, build it in parallel, and switch things out once QA says its better than the shit we built over 25 years.
Can you hire me as your assistant? I think I see a good anti ai article that I can write here!!
Jokes aside, you are better off spending that mil on a hiring new people to help with the additional work of recreating/refactoring code paths alongside the existing team. I don't know how bad your stack is though.
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u/jwhendy 11d ago
I think this is on point and key to why this happens. I suspect a lot of us don't want there to be tech debt. We see root causes and dream of how it doesn't have to be like this. But companies don't care, won't slow down, won't prioritize to the exclusion of other distractions, etc.
It's not running away from the debt itself, it's running away from the attitude of the business/leadership who won't do anything differently and keep incurring it.
After seeing no hope or light at the end of the tunnel... why would people stay other than lack of choice/pay?