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The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles - gosocial2 - 06-30-2025
The tech industry's focus on rapid development cycles has led to substantial instability within the developer ecosystem, where developers are increasingly burdened as uncompensated maintainers of fragile foundations. This instability, evident in ecosystems based-on JavaScript and Python, emerges from dependency cascades that disrupt projects when critical components are deprecated or updated with breaking changes. Developers face productivity losses and technical debt as they are forced to rebuild applications, retrain on new paradigms, and rediscover previously solved issues.
- Why your React/Next.js/Python/SwiftUI/.NET project WILL break sooner rather than later (and ChatGPT / Claude/ Gemini will not fix it soon enough)
- The dependency hells of NPM and PIP that are killing projects
- How tech giants profit from developer suffering
- Why "continuous learning and improvement" has become a psychological trap for developers
- The real cost of "moving fast and breaking things" (mostly paid at a higher price by startups and small businesses)
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaKVc4rprxg]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaKVc4rprxg
RE: The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles Break - LordKaos - 06-30-2025
That video represents me and why I always suggest Codeigniter at first.
Now dealing with Supabase, prisma, nest...only the recommendation of chatgpt (always asking him "why?")...everyone is unsure of the code.
Taking parts of components and libraries is my rule.
Greetings!
RE: The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles Break - davidmakey230 - 06-30-2025
great tips for information.
RE: The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles Break - gosocial2 - 07-01-2025
Even ChatGPT says PHP and CodeIgniter is a better choice among alternatives like React / NextJS, ASP.NET, etc if the main goal is develop and deploy once and forget!
RE: The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles Break - davis.lasis - 07-01-2025
Great topic and video.
I have explained this issue for years. Most of bosses, companies and groups assumed i am stupid and not willing moving on...
Few started to listen once understood that my build systems does not break down after few months.
RE: The Hidden Cost of “Innovation” By Overly Frequent Development Cycles Break - fcoder - 07-02-2025
I completely agree with the video. The constant need to update and adapt to new technologies can be overwhelming and costly for developers and businesses alike.
It's refreshing to see someone highlighting the importance of stability and longevity in software development.