If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
It's worse than that.<p>The CHAOS study, among others, shows that 80%+ of all software projects are viewed as failures by the people who pay for them.<p>Meanwhile you come onto boards like HN or reddit and instead of talking about how to establish and keep trust with the folks writing the checks, everybody's talking frameworks and tools.<p>So picture a subdivision where 80% of the houses are broken down, priced too high, incomplete, or put together haphazardly. Now stop at one of the houses where the building crew is still there and watch them spend all day talking about the nail-o-matic 200psi nailgun or the robot auto-roofer that the carpenters in the next town are using.<p>The situation is sad from every angle.