[ceuk]

Watching was supposed to be a prototype become the production code is one of the most constant themes of my 20 year career

[jmathai]

Software takes longer to develop than other parts of the org want to wait.

AI is emerging as a possible solution to this decades old problem.

[thyristan]

Everything takes longer than ppl want to wait. But when building a house, ppl are more patient and tolerant about the time taken, because they can physically see the progress, the effort, the sweat. Software is intangible and invisible except maybe for beta-testers and developer liaisons. And the visual parts, like the nonfunctional GUI or web UI, are often taken as "most of the work is done", because that is what people see and interact with.

[zppln]

No, the org will still have to wait for the requirements, which is what they were waiting for all along.

[dudefeliciano]

until the whole company fails because lack of polishing and security in the software. Think tea app openly accessible databases...

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Or as a new problem that it will persist for decades to come.

[ozim]

I don’t really see this as universal truth with corporate customers stalling process for up to 2 years or end users being reluctant to change.

We were deploying new changes every 2 weeks and it was too fast. End users need training and communication, pushback was quite a thing.

We also just pushed back aggressive timeline we had for migration to new tech. Much faster interface with shorter paths - but users went all pitchforks and torches just because it was new.

But with AI fortunately we will get rid of those pesky users right?