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The #1 way to become a bad developer is: stop caring. - Stop caring about understanding what you are doing. - Stop caring about the quality of your deliverabl
by 29athrowaway 5y ago
The #1 way to become a bad developer is: stop caring.
- Stop caring about understanding what you are doing.
- Stop caring about the quality of your deliverables.
- Stop caring about understanding how things work.
- Stop caring about finding better ways of doing things.
- Stop caring about learning.
- Stop caring about what you have learned and how you can use it.
There are many factors that will make tempt you stop caring, but you should resist them and persevere. One of such factors is: mediocre jobs, mediocre leadership.
If you stop caring, you'll become unemployable in a few years, and any advantage you had over younger developers will go away.
- agomez314 5y agoCan attest to this. You start letting small things slide in PRs, decide not to add those extra assertions because "you know it will work", not understand the libraries being used and before you know it the codebase is something people want to stay away from.