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In my first job, I remember I had a boss once who said to me, we don't really get bug reports anymore for our component, despite the fact that they are still pouring in for the product. There had been a half year long initiative to improve software quality for my team, supported by the broader organization. It didn't save the company though. But we reached a point where we fixed most/all of the bugs. We added automated tests for corner cases. So things got really quiet. Hard to believe. As an engineer, it was incredibly satisfying.

That phase of my career was very rare. Yes, I have gotten periods of time where I get to pay down technical debt, but mostly the bosses/employers just want me and my colleagues to move on as fast as possible to start the next project. They don't care how many bugs are filed against the old project, and we'll just squeeze in the critical ones.

The go-go-go attitude is what wears me down and makes me want out of the industry. I want to feel like I finished something. Not perfection, but finished you know? That there isn't a mountain of bugs I never even looked at?

I don't think this is something new however.