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>A well-intentioned intern can make a programming decision in an afternoon that might take a team of senior SWEs months or more to clean up later once the code
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
>A well-intentioned intern can make a programming decision in an afternoon that might take a team of senior SWEs months or more to clean up later once the code or data is being used for something important.
And a new maintenance tech with the wrong grease gun can cause millions of dollars of downtime. This kind of risk exists in all industries.
- slothario 8y agoThat's not a good analogy. The problem isn't an intern writing a line of code that takes out the database (although that does sometimes happen). The problem is a failure to understand a complex software system and creating years of technical debt.