CrypticCoffee

I wouldn't recommend staying with a company for 17 years. That's for sure. Best way to get stuck in a company specific niche skill that is not transferable. For the reasons stated you got to keep yourself positioned well skills wise and relevant so you can jump into any role you need at any time.

Integrity is not for the company. It's doing things the way you think they should be done and earn your own respect.

I would say all companies don't replace with cheaper. Many do. Especially the shitty ones. It's quite easy to avoid those like the plague. Many did, and learnt the hard way, many have staff that have seen failed outsourcing and are in a position to influence that.

Soloing knowledge doesn't keep you safe though as the penny pinching companies will remove anyway and clean up later regardless. It does not keep you safe. It's a false sense of security. Complacency is a death sentence in software development.

Professional integrity. Have you ever worked for a company that got screwed by a consultancy? Vendor lock in and charging scandalous amounts for little offer.

You are paid for your skills and your time. If you're confident in your ability and impact, you shouldn't have to be worried.

I'm not saying sacrifice for yourself for your company, and if they are a shitty company that would replace you with cheaper, get out, but also, giving nothing for the pay you get is a bit dishonest, and then you are no better than them.

Plus, you make the case that hiring people is bad and paying a consultancy is less risky.

Of course Jared didn't document anything and made themselves a bus factor. Real success is when Jared makes themself replaceable because hiding detail and making yourself critical is the best way to take a site down when you're on holiday and prevent other team members stepping in and taking ownership.

Isn't this just the tech version of cuckooing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckooing

Illegally using someone's property to make profit from dodgy business.

Unit tests, yes, but you don't only do unit tests. Integration and e2e tests still exist.

Was there even tests?

I'm not sure what's with your first sentence. Everything else you said agreed with the point I was making...

Garbage in, garbage out. Keep feeding it shit data, expect shit answers.

Real mugs.

Henry Ford invented breaks to extract more out of the peasant Labour.

The fact we're years later and cognitively demanding jobs don't support this well show how amateur managers are and his spineless devs that enable them are.

I know enough, little one. Maybe you do.

You're insufferable. Surprised you still ain't on reddit. That's where the corporate bootlickers are. I guess Lemmy.world is the next best place.

No. It's when bugs and crashes happen, and trying to identify how. Such as stack traces for example, or memory usage when an app keels over.

I'm not here to market FF, I'm here trying to counter balance the Firefox haters that spend so much hate to trash the only real legitimate chance we have of Google not dictating web standards. I don't know why so many people shill for billion dollar companies. Do they love Google that much, or are they simply useful idiots?