Comments by "Brent Jacobs" (@br3nto) on "Prime Reacts: Software Engineering is In Decline" video.

  1. 10:13 I don’t understand how unhandled edge cases is a proof of the decline of software engineering. That’s not a software problem, that’s a human problem.
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  2.  @pretzelboi64  it’s a human problem. If the software doesn’t handle an edge case, a human didn’t write the necessary code to handle the edge case. Either by choice or because they didn’t know the edge case existed, or because of trade offs with deadlines. Many softwares do handle ridiculous edge cases. So it’s really cherry picking to make this statement. Many softwares follow a CI/CD pattern unlike bridges, where the software gets constant updates and new features. The older features in theory should get more stable and less bug prone, where newer code is likely to have less error handling…. It’s still not proof of a decline in software engineering.
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  3. 26:38 it’s not that there is a higher level of okness… we have limited mechanisms to provide feedback and limited time to respond to or handle feedback. Even if we do have feedback… it gets dropped into a backhole… who knows if any dev team ever sees the feedback? Does the dev team even have to time to prioritise this one little thing over all the other little things they have to do?
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