I observed at one of my haunts that after a series of forced platform and tooling migrations with unreasonable deadlines the dev teams found themselves buried in tech debt… for example, the need to migrate from labrats to gitlab build pipelines and so forth;
Personally, I don’t run things this way… so it’s extremely painful to watch and creates a toxic environment.
While working with the team to try an wrangle the situation an image occurred to me of the team fighting a desperate battle against tech debt (and not necessarily winning). I described what flashed in my mind to gemini and it made a pretty good rendition of it. If nothing else, generative AI is a good way to rapidly express ideas…
