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I highly agree with this. It's almost a necessity these days with a major push to hire "junior" developers at a discounted rate. By doing those lower abstractio

by zo1 7y ago

I highly agree with this. It's almost a necessity these days with a major push to hire "junior" developers at a discounted rate. By doing those lower abstraction layers, you allow them to write the necessary high-volume business code while reducing their ability to do something subtly stupid for the business/data. Usually this involves abstracting away a lot of the database transaction-type stuff. And on a side note: Never let juniors anywhere near the database design without supervision by the team/seniors. They won't learn anything that way, and they will inevitably make a mess.

29athrowaway 7y ago
In genetic algorithms, you select the best from each generation to breed the next generation. I think this holds true in software development teams as well. When you indoctrinate new developers, you should delegate mentorship to the best* performing teams, so new developers can assimilate good practices and develop an intuition for how thing should work. I think this is much more valuable than giving them grunt work. *: just like with genetic algorithms, picking the right fitness function is everything. Good performance is about steady, consistent, sustainable development... rather than trading today's problem with tomorrow's problem.