The Eternal Tech Distraction Syndrome

machine learning bugs Distraction Priorities production Technical debt Developer life Procrastination

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The Eternal Tech Distraction Syndrome

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Backend engineers getting distracted by shiny machine learning tech while production bugs silently judge them from behind. Tale as old as git. We all swear we'll fix that NullPointerException right after we finish this "quick" TensorFlow tutorial that's only been open in a browser tab for 47 days.

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