The longer I work at a highly-productive software company with hundreds of people the more I feel that flat textfiles are not merely not the right abstraction to reason about software, they're merely epiphenomena of a social process which happen to be machine readable.
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But there are a lot of things which are machine readable, like say binaries, which you would in most cases not want humans to be reasoning over. And I'm getting to the point where I think source code is not the thing to reason about, not really.
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But because our source code is the one part of the puzzle that we have relatively developed tooling for, reason about the source code we do, heedless of the iceberg beneath it that we have an impoverished ability to reason about and which we lack a vocabulary to describe.
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Another micro-heresy: I don't think people hate JIRA because JIRA is bad software. I think people hate JIRA because JIRA is fundamentally the wrong abstraction for The Work but because it's the most developed non-code abstraction The Work happens in it.
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It’s amazing how much
@patio11 always gets it. Everything we’ve been talking about internally for the last 4 years has been around the human behavior and social dynamics of REAL teams. Not the ones you read on your favorite SAAS engineering blogs. Most of those are only dreams.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1100764361520340993 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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