> So yes it does increase "velocity" for the person A who can get away with using it. But then the decrease in velocity for person B trying to build on top of that code is never properly tracked.
Offhand anecdote, 1990s
That reminds me of when the German corporation my mother worked for moved more and more production to China end of last century. All the failures that the still existing German factory had to handle by repairing them ended up in their accounts. From the top bosses' point of view, just looking at the accounting data, the China production looked clean.
Of course, unsurprisingly (with enough effort), they made it work over the years, fulfilling the prophecy. Good for China.
How you account for things shifts the narrative and then reality follows the investments made based on that.
Offhand anecdote, 1990s
That reminds me of when the German corporation my mother worked for moved more and more production to China end of last century. All the failures that the still existing German factory had to handle by repairing them ended up in their accounts. From the top bosses' point of view, just looking at the accounting data, the China production looked clean.
Of course, unsurprisingly (with enough effort), they made it work over the years, fulfilling the prophecy. Good for China.
How you account for things shifts the narrative and then reality follows the investments made based on that.