Hmm. Spent too much time on this blog today.

Source: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/12/02/bozoloop/

«You still need developers to work on your broken project, so you start scraping the bottom of the barrel. You get mercenaries who will work on anything for money because they just turn the crank to pump out soulless code and don’t care about the results. You get people who are fresh out of school and don’t know that it’s a rotten dead fish of a project.

Finally, once in a while you get someone who’s genuinely good and wants to fix things. They jump in and work like crazy, but it overpowers even them. They wind up quitting the project or perhaps the whole company, and go off and start writing war stories on their personal web site.

Because you let the bozos get to your project, all your project can now get to work on it is more bozos. I’m calling this the “bozo loop”.»