But the time spent doing that is time not shipping code. Most companies don’t give a flying fuck about quality, they just want to ship as much as possible to make as much money as possible.
When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.
Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.
Those are all great habits.
But the time spent doing that is time not shipping code. Most companies don’t give a flying fuck about quality, they just want to ship as much as possible to make as much money as possible.
When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.
Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.