This why any good engineer would bake it into their estimates when working around the area. I think Martin Fowler covers this in Refactoring. Eiher that or it was Kent Beck in TDD. Both books complement each other really well.

A good civil engineer doesn't ask a Project Manager if they can add in structural supports. A good software engineer shouldn't ask to build things right.

"Before we build x, we need to adapt the foundations by resolving x problem. If we don't get this right, it'll increase the chances of bugs surfacing in production and would make our team look like a joke."

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Sure, then you get outbid by another contractor who is willing to cut corners.

[–] arendjr@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s why you should go work at big corporate enterprises. Then you have both job security as well as the ability to spend as much time as necessary on getting things right. And you might even learn to say no to middle management.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aw do they also hand out unicorns for Xmas?

Some corporations do that, most don't even if they're trying to, because incompetence.

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