software development in most shops is just duct taping problems because there is “never time” to actually fix the problem or address the root because we have to sprint on to something else.

At my workplace I am the duct taper. I’m not a real developer myself - I’m a person with development skills whose job is to clean up the mess that the real developers mindlessly create in their rush to get cards from one side of the screen to the other.

Probably useful in data science

If it’s remote controlled, they can work from India, and they can be paid less

I KNEW IT. I feel vindicated

There are always more roads that need building. Paving this one autonomously could free up the workers to build a different road at the same time.

I don’t know if they actually did, I’m just saying it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Many such cases

Oracle

on the nose

They burned a forest for this