I dont think the authors comments are without merit. My experience has shown me issues are usually more upfront and after the fact.
Either the bottleneck between product organizations and engineering on getting decent requirements to know what to build and engineering teams being unwilling to start until they have every I dotted and T crossed.
The backend of the problem is that already most of the code e see written is poorly documented across the spectrum. How many commit messages have we seen of "wip" for instance? Or you go to a repository and the Readme is empty?
So the real danger is the stack overflow effect on steroids. It's not just a block of code that was put in that wasn't understood, its now entire projects, and there's little to no documentation to explain what was done or why decisions were made.
Either the bottleneck between product organizations and engineering on getting decent requirements to know what to build and engineering teams being unwilling to start until they have every I dotted and T crossed.
The backend of the problem is that already most of the code e see written is poorly documented across the spectrum. How many commit messages have we seen of "wip" for instance? Or you go to a repository and the Readme is empty?
So the real danger is the stack overflow effect on steroids. It's not just a block of code that was put in that wasn't understood, its now entire projects, and there's little to no documentation to explain what was done or why decisions were made.