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This actually happened to me, (and his rewrite didn’t even work!). Having witnessed this first-hand, I can say that the impact of the code change was absolutel
by cellularmitosis 7y ago
This actually happened to me, (and his rewrite didn’t even work!). Having witnessed this first-hand, I can say that the impact of the code change was absolutely dwarfed by the lost trust. Unsurprisingly, I would come to find out that this engineer had what I would call the opposite of soft skills, and the notion of a “this irks me so I rewrote your code” has become a giant red flag for me.
- kortilla 7y agoDid you lose trust because the code broke (a legit reason to lose trust) or because your code was changed without kissing your ring (a problem with you being too attached to your code emotionally).
- cellularmitosis 7y agoHaving a conversation and “kissing my ring” are not the same thing by a long shot, but that sure is a pretty strawman!