Some old tech: exists and functions just fine for 20+ years.

Some tech bro: Yeah we gotta throw this out the window and re-invent the freaking wheel.

"Functions just fine" isn‘t enough. It needs to have AI in it and it must have a subscription based payment model.

Couple of years ago it was "how can we use a blockchain?" now it's "how can we use AI?"

@atheist how can we use "ai blockchain saas mmorpg offline-capable" system?

If it actually is *working fine* after all that time, could be dude just wants to invent a problem to facilitate more job security? "Working fine" depends on your perspective sometimes.

We, human beings, likebnew stimuli. Software that's too reliable is too boring. Soft that's too unreliable is too much effort.

When building a soft, make sure to leave just enough bugs for the community to... Communicate about. Not too many. Not too few. Otherwise there will always be some chap who will reinvent your wheel with the right amount of bugs

New Manager:

Day 0: Let's fire this developer he doesn't do anything

Day 1: Let's rewrite it into modern tech stack it's just simple app and they guy wasn't doing anything anyways.

Day 100: Let's drop those functionalities we don't need those, just implement things we need right now and are critical

Day 365: I'm leaving to other company

All characters and events are entirely fictional.

About two years ago management brought in a bunch of consultants to replace all the stuff my team had built with shiny new overpriced bollocks, and my job changed from building stuff to having meetings with wankers, so I quit.

Apparently they're still using the "legacy" stuff two years on, because the consultants don't really understand the business and they have no incentive to actually finish the project.

Who could have predicted such an outcome?

@donkulator it's hard not to become cynical in this sub-meta-industry. I feel your pain!

The end user: window opens, I input a number and it saves. Works fine
The engineer under the hood: FIRE ON LEVEL 5 ! HULLBREACH IN MAINFRAME! SRG! GET YOUR MEN TO THE ESCAPE PODS, AND TAKE CARE OF MY WIFE FOR ME. GOD BLESS

@donkulator if you finish something you are enemy number one because they need to fire you or find you other things to do and they are frightened that you might finish those things to and they would need to find you something else.

That’s a lot of work !

Never finish xD

And the wheel is No longer round but instead is a triangle

... yeah let's flip the wheel and earn some money, doesn't matter that is useless!