New comment by nbajka in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

nbajka — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:16:25 +0000

>Nobody wants to lay off an employee that is pleasant to be around, trustworthy, and good at what they do.

So if I hire a painter who is pleasant to be around, trustworthy, and good at what they do, I'm not going to "lay him off" the instant he's done painting my house?

New comment by nbajka in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

nbajka — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:32:34 +0000

>Burning down the backlog to zero doesn't mean the development team will be subsequently laid off. Quite the contrary. It will create a vacuum that the business will fill with new work

Will it? Are you willing to test this?

>No one is laying off the development team that just chewed through 50 items per day for 3 straight weeks.

If there are no remaining items, or the amount of items processed per day has increased well above the amount of items that need processing every day, someone's certainly getting laid off.

>Who would support all the potential bugs they just created?

We have long criticised management for not caring about this. Now we are supposed to trust their good judgement?

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New comment by nbajka in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

New comment by nbajka in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"