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Yeah knowing this makes me a less useful senior. We add quality gates and my opinion is always "staff attrition and/or scope increase will just bring us back down to barely-fit-for-purpose".

We are also starved for juniors. I would absolutely kill to spend more time teaching and less time churning out code. The waves of lean are fucking embarrassing break downs to an industry that needs to be held to a much higher standard. You get unusable bullshit when rigor drops even a little bit.

Can we talk about how many enterprises would go belly up if their single IT person suddenly disappeared

Eeeeh I don't wanna make any claims, I've seen behind the curtain on the medical industry and "understaffing" is an understatement there

they’re doing it because they can

Design is pretty bad too, but that's mostly because as a discipline it's not really valued