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Can you really be a skilled programmer if you refuse code reviews and constantly ship buggy code? I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think that makes

by bbarn 5y ago

Can you really be a skilled programmer if you refuse code reviews and constantly ship buggy code? I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think that makes a shit developer. No amount of code knowledge is worth hiring someone that won't work with others. I absolutely hate the trope of the brilliant genius coder who has to be left alone. The reality of that is exactly what you're describing.

doodlebugging 5y ago
>Can you be a skilled programmer... The answer is no. I agree with you and there is a chance that I could've been less generous in my description. I think they were ashamed to be confronted since they had a more advanced education and experience level than most of the rest of the team. They worked well with everyone, would gladly help others improve skills, had a great personality and sense of humor but their main defect was the unwillingness to accept the fact of their own fallibility, causing production lags and extra work fixing problems that shouldn't have happened. We handled it and it all worked out in the end.
engmgrmgr 5y ago
Can you be a good musician if you always make mistakes while performing? Maybe you’re a better composer or producer then, but it’s on whoever leads the group of musicians to organize that. Jerks who randomly push buggy code straight to master might be the reason you have a job. Most of them probably aren’t, but some of them are the reason a bunch of other people have a job running around fixing stuff and being mad about it. It’s really hard to see yourself as a regulating component in some messy system, but nothing is better for velocity than pissed of engineers heroically fixing all the stuff they hate from some other engineer that’s pumping out mostly working high impact stuff left and right.

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Can you really be a skilled programmer if you refuse code reviews and constantly ship buggy code? I might be an outlier here, but I absolutely think that makes

by bbarn 5y ago

doodlebugging 5y ago
>Can you be a skilled programmer... The answer is no. I agree with you and there is a chance that I could've been less generous in my description. I think they were ashamed to be confronted since they had a more advanced education and experience level than most of the rest of the team. They worked well with everyone, would gladly help others improve skills, had a great personality and sense of humor but their main defect was the unwillingness to accept the fact of their own fallibility, causing production lags and extra work fixing problems that shouldn't have happened. We handled it and it all worked out in the end.
engmgrmgr 5y ago
Can you be a good musician if you always make mistakes while performing? Maybe you’re a better composer or producer then, but it’s on whoever leads the group of musicians to organize that. Jerks who randomly push buggy code straight to master might be the reason you have a job. Most of them probably aren’t, but some of them are the reason a bunch of other people have a job running around fixing stuff and being mad about it. It’s really hard to see yourself as a regulating component in some messy system, but nothing is better for velocity than pissed of engineers heroically fixing all the stuff they hate from some other engineer that’s pumping out mostly working high impact stuff left and right.