Opinionated

Look, I’m going to say what everyone’s thinking in that 9 AM standup but too polite to voice: Scrum implementations often become bureaucratic nightmares that are functionally indistinguishable from Waterfall, just with mandatory audience participation and more Jira notifications. I know. Controversial. But hear me out before you close this tab in frustrated silence. The Uncomfortable Truth Behind the Agile Revolution Here’s the thing about Scrum: it was born from a genuine desire to escape the rigid, sequential hell of Waterfall methodology....

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 AM, your deadline is in 6 hours, and you need to parse a JSON response in a way that’s just slightly off from what Google tells you is standard. You open Stack Overflow in a new tab, find exactly what you need, copy-paste it into your codebase, and move on with your life. Fifteen developers in your company do the same thing every week. Then, five years later, during due diligence for a funding round—or worse, a lawsuit threat—someone discovers that the code snippet you borrowed from Stack Overflow is actually derivative work from a GPL-licensed project....

We love to talk about technical debt. It’s the monster under our bed, the thing we blame for slow sprints and frustrated developers. “We need to refactor,” we cry. “The codebase is a mess!” we protest in retrospectives. But here’s the uncomfortable truth that nobody at your last architecture meeting wanted to hear: sometimes the real culprit isn’t the quick fixes and shortcuts. Sometimes it’s the opposite—it’s the thing we built that’s too damn good for what it actually needed to do....

Мы любим говорить о техническом долге. Это монстр под нашей кроватью, виновник медленных спринтов и разочарованных разработчиков. «Нам нужно провести рефакторинг», — кричим мы. «Базовое кодовое хранилище — беспорядок!» — протестуем мы на ретроспективах. Но вот неудобная правда, которую никто на вашем последнем совещании по архитектуре не хотел услышать: иногда настоящий виновник — это не быстрые исправления и короткие пути. Иногда всё наоборот — мы создали нечто слишком хорошее для того, что на самом деле нужно было сделать....

Remember when your car had a 5-speed transmission and a carburetor you could actually tinker with? Yeah, neither do I—but engineers loved them. Why? Because that “inefficient” design taught them how cars actually worked. Today’s software industry is obsessed with maximum efficiency, and I’m here to argue we’re optimizing away some of the most valuable parts of our craft. The Efficiency Cult We’ve Built Let’s be honest: the software development world is currently gripped by what I call “efficiency mania....