An acquaintance of mine has basically been doing this for years in the form of slop code written by the cheapest outsourcing firms on earth who cannot comprehend rudimentary requirements and have no concept of coding standards. But management insists this is the most cost effective way of doing things, rather than just having a competent group of qualified people do it right from the start.

It seems as depressing as you'd think.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

This seems to happen in a lot of IT in general.
Your software, db's and infrastructure ends up a mess, but it's so cheap they can pay 3x the number of people to keep sweeping all of the issues under the rug.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

nightmare territory that.