In collaboration with the National DevOps Conference & Awards, this article discusses the erosion of software development.

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Software is experiencing a gradual erosion, making it increasingly complex and difficult to maintain. Developers spend a significant portion of their workweek on maintenance and technical debt rather than innovation. Software erosion, caused by the accumulation of dependencies and quick fixes, leads to a decline in readability, maintainability, and functional safety. The post discusses the need for integrating quality assurance from the start of the development process and emphasizes the importance of understanding software architecture to mitigate this issue.

Software is eroding before our eyes

Shipping immature code to jump on the market, and patch fixes later is bad for the long run? Who would’ve thought? You can blame the internet for that. Devs used to have to make dang sure their product worked because it was shipped on a disk, and an update wasn’t a quick thing, and could possibly bankrupt the company. Now it’s, “get it out now, we’ll push an update later for the fix.”

The first thing generative AI should fix is software development. Instead of fixing the world’s problems it should try and just solve the concerns that make it inefficient first.

Very on point. When I try to access the post:
“Error establishing a database connection”
Unless that is the point and I’m not in on the joke!