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I have worked with people that did, and while rare it is very painful. In one case the person had seniority over me and kept "refactoring" our codebase in a te

by belval 4y ago

I have worked with people that did, and while rare it is very painful. In one case the person had seniority over me and kept "refactoring" our codebase in a team of 8. You'd write a function that worked one day and come back the next and it was broken because "I changed the name of that function because it did sound right". Some people are weirdos and nothing short of their manager telling them to STFU and do their job will stop them.

retrocryptid 4y ago
In the early 90s at Convex, we had a tool that would reformat code for your personal style after it was checked out of the repo and then reformmated back to our corporate style before checking it back in. It turns out it cost less to develop this tool than to absorb the daily productivity hit which came from people spending their day arguing code style instead of working.