Again, you're arguing here on the basis of quality. The points you're making here are not in dispute.
> It's pretty hard to move fast when you're wading through a pile of garbage.
One of the key things about autocrats, their defining characteristics even, is they get to disregard any law they want to.
This is not fun for anyone relying on that law. It is not somewhere sensible people will choose to invest in.
But it is fast.
Technical debt is a fine example, but you know what? Easy debt fuels capitalism. I've seen one codebase that had an incompetent mutilate it for something like a decade, and another that was ISO 9001 rated. The train-wreck with all the debt was still easier to handle and faster to implement features and fix bugs within, and lasted in prod much longer than most software companies.
Lots of governments keep promising the equivalent of finally refactoring the old codebase, it's hard and slow but some even make progress. Autocrats? They can just order them all gone. And when it turns out that wasn't a good idea? It was a bad idea done fast.
> Again, you're arguing here on the basis of quality.
You have to have a minimum threshold of quality for speed to mean anything. If not well, I can outperform math calculations even if you have a calculator. My answers might be nowhere near correct and I might just yell "zero" in response to everything, but it will be very fast!
Or have a made some bad assumption that quality isn't relevant at all? That you're arguing fat void of all correctness? If so, I'm not sure there a meaningful conversation to have at all
But instead if there's any measure of quality that must be satisfied, even if the bar is on the floor, then reread my comment again. I'm afraid you're reading what you want to read rather than what I wrote. You're going to have to work with me here as I can't beam my thoughts directly into your head nor am I willing to write a novel in reply. I've already been quite verbose
> It's pretty hard to move fast when you're wading through a pile of garbage.
One of the key things about autocrats, their defining characteristics even, is they get to disregard any law they want to.
This is not fun for anyone relying on that law. It is not somewhere sensible people will choose to invest in.
But it is fast.
Technical debt is a fine example, but you know what? Easy debt fuels capitalism. I've seen one codebase that had an incompetent mutilate it for something like a decade, and another that was ISO 9001 rated. The train-wreck with all the debt was still easier to handle and faster to implement features and fix bugs within, and lasted in prod much longer than most software companies.
Lots of governments keep promising the equivalent of finally refactoring the old codebase, it's hard and slow but some even make progress. Autocrats? They can just order them all gone. And when it turns out that wasn't a good idea? It was a bad idea done fast.