> It's fine for protecting against profound levels of incompetence but I don't do that and you probably don't either. Everybody starts at a profound level of i

> It's fine for protecting against profound levels of incompetence but I don't do that and you probably don't either. Everybody starts at a profound level of incompetence. If you want a junior to be able to make a contribution and you don't want to spend half of the pull request discussing mundane aspects of their code style, then linters and formatters improve the situation somewhat.