when your leadership is too off-putting and weird to hire & retain normie attorneys and PR reps
This paper by Margaret-Anne Storey is the most important thing I've read about the field of software engineering in years.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106
Lmao. Lmfao.
It really is wild how much of stuff you thought had to be based in some kind of rigorous, evidence-based process ends up being just vibes all the way down.
the bad guys have a dev+deploy cycle about 4-5 orders of magnitude faster than your average harried municipal IT team, so