Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?

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Solving the top-priority software engineering problem with unlimited resources

advanced Published 7 Feb 2020
Action Steps
  1. Identify the most critical technical debt in software engineering
  2. Assemble a team of experienced software engineers to tackle the problem
  3. Allocate sufficient resources and time to address the issue
  4. Develop a comprehensive plan to solve the problem
  5. Implement and test the solution
  6. Deploy and maintain the solution
Who Needs to Know This

Software engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers would benefit from tackling this problem, as it would improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of software development

Key Insight

💡 Technical debt is a significant obstacle in software engineering, and addressing it could greatly improve development efficiency

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Solving the top-priority software engineering problem with unlimited resources

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If you have unlimited time and/or resources, what single software engineering problem would you address? I'm not talking about "Peace on Earth"-type problems, but rather real world practical problems facing software engineering that could be actually solved if you could pay an rationally large team of serious hackers a rationally large amount of money for a rationally long period of time. Another way of asking this is: What's the most important piece of technical debt across software engineering, that could practically be solved if we put enough energy into it?
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