Fast, Good, Cheap, Or Vibing

Engineering trilemma Technical debt Work-life balance Impossible expectations Project management Legacy code Developer tools Burnout

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Fast, Good, Cheap, Or Vibing

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The classic "Fast, Good, Cheap: Pick Two" engineering trilemma meets the harsh reality of modern dev life. Except now we've added a fourth option: "Vibe Coding" – where you're just having a good time with your vibrating... code editor.

Spoiler alert: that massager isn't fixing your technical debt, but it might help you cope with the existential dread of that legacy codebase you inherited. Management still expects all four options simultaneously, naturally.

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