I’ve written plenty of bad code before, and some of it was released and some of that led to tricky bugs. I don’t feel particularly ashamed of having written bad

I’ve written plenty of bad code before, and some of it was released and some of that led to tricky bugs. I don’t feel particularly ashamed of having written bad code though. Maybe I’m thinking of a different kind of feedback? Like, hopefully the worst problems can be figured out before much code is written, and if someone made some asshole critical comment, I would probably consider it reflecting poorly on them rather than me (indeed I find the permanent record of the comments I left and since regretted weighs more heavily than the record of the comments received – or the poor code committed). But I guess different people react to feedback differently, especially critical feedback and maybe you’re imagining some kind of ‘the whole thing is totally wrong and terrible’ discussion? But that feels to me like a case where a bunch of blame belongs to whatever allowed a bunch of totally wrong code to begin to be written.