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Where are you getting the premise of the question? I don't see this lack of confidence. If you are early in your career and a group of seniors are wasting your
by ilaksh 3y ago
Where are you getting the premise of the question? I don't see this lack of confidence.
If you are early in your career and a group of seniors are wasting your time with code review changes that aren't important at all, then yes you could become a bit insecure at the start of that process.
But after going through that sort of thing routinely for a year or two, I think it could make you more confident in your ability.
Since I do most of my work solo, I tend to debate with myself a fair amount on which approach to take to something. Because I am going to be stuck with the decisions or the actual implementation.
GPT-4 has actually been helping somewhat just to materialize some basic critiques.
When I'm working with other developers, I also tend to dedicate more time and effort to using the particular framework and assumptions of that group.
Whereas normally working on my own, I avoid having too many assumptions and do things in a more simplistic old fashioned way driven by the requirements.
I think realistically it's a mixed bag and it's going to depend on the particular team and how it's executed. Many teams will probably waste time and energy on code changes or things that aren't important. But very strong teams of experienced developers that are doing effective code collaboration, of course that could be much more productive than a solo developer. Or at least a more polished codebase and UI.
But it depends on the specific team.
- lapcat 3y agoI get the impression that you misread the question. You said, "I don't see this lack of confidence", but that's the opposite of what was asked. And I'm not sure why you're talking about teams at all. A solo indie dev is a one person company, working alone all the time.
- ilaksh 3y agoI was just filling in the context that he left out of the actual wording of the question. "More confident" than what? You can interpret the question more literally as "more confident than in their coding than they would have been if someone criticized their code". But that implies the alternative we are talking about is working in a team and also having less confidence. "Is it a good thing?" to me is about outcomes. The outcome depends on the circumstance which again was implied to be either a solo dev or a team.
- lapcat 3y ago> You can interpret the question more literally as "more confident than in their coding than they would have been if someone criticized their code". But that implies the alternative we are talking about is working in a team and also having less confidence. Yes, but it doesn't imply "lack of confidence" or being "insecure". The question was about "extra confidence". "I don't see this lack of confidence" is a strange statement. The question is about a difference in confidence level, and you wouldn't be able to observe it unless you observed solo indie devs, which is difficult to do, because they work alone. ;-)