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Thing is, I don't technically "write" most of the code today. I type the first few characters and IntelliJ fills the rest for me (and also takes care of the imp
by rakejake 4y ago
Thing is, I don't technically "write" most of the code today. I type the first few characters and IntelliJ fills the rest for me (and also takes care of the imports and some other useful stuff). Is it literally one click or a prompt and all my code gets generated? Well no. But I know exactly what is going in my code without having to actively read it. In case some error slips in, I know what my intention was so corrections are trivial.
I dread reviewing someone else's code. I consider it the hardest part of my job as it requires a lot of concentration lest some bug creep in.
I am reminded of some Java codebases filled with unknown annotations whose annotation processors were in some library being imported. It was a nightmare trying to figure out what was happening and I dearly wanted to accost the engineer who wrote that mess. Unfortunately they had left the company.