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Mega agree with this. It was really bad for my personal/career growth to get a ton of praise for doing things fast: granted, a lot of people doing the praising

Mega agree with this. It was really bad for my personal/career growth to get a ton of praise for doing things fast: granted, a lot of people doing the praising had precious little experience in tech themselves. I probably have 2-3 whole dead years where I could have been learning/improving a lot more but got put in “10x developer” expectation projects where I’d churn something out, get a big shiny star sticker for it, and then 2 years later it would be abandoned because there was no incentive for anyone but me to maintain it, and who would want to because it was shitty code with hacks and tech-debt, and anything that isn’t writing a fucking mountain of new garbage code gets in the way of shiny star collection.

testacct22 3y ago
> but got put in “10x developer” expectation projects where I’d churn something out, get a big shiny star sticker for it, and then 2 years later it would be abandoned I feel like I've fallen into this hole at my current gig, where I just churn shit out to solve a problem as quickly as possible I get away with it just bc general code quality was already not good to begin with Biggest mistake was going fast the first time, now I'm getting assigned way more shit Word of advice to readers: don't make the same mistake I made. You'll just get taken advantage of