The Productivity Paradox

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OH. MY. GOD. The existential horror just hit me like a production outage at 3 AM! 😱 Conway's Law says organizations design systems that mirror their communication structure. But this comic takes it to the NEXT LEVEL of corporate tragedy! If management—who couldn't code their way out of a "Hello World" program—is designing your software architecture, suddenly ALL the horrifying spaghetti code, nonsensical APIs, and soul-crushing technical debt makes PERFECT SENSE! That thousand-yard stare in the last panel? That's the face of a developer who just realized their entire career is built on an organizational chart drawn by someone who thinks "Python" is just a large snake. I'm literally DYING. 💀

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Content Randall Koutnik Follow rkoutnik Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don't suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3 9:22 PM - 16 Jan 2019 1,845 Retweets 5,689 Likes 68 17 18K 5.7K