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Experience will make him see this. Experience did the same for me. It just takes some time.

• marpstar 3y ago
  Agreed. It's "fun" to start breaking your code down into small bits; more interchangeable "pieces" -- until you have to maintain it for 10 years (or worse yet, explain it to a new junior dev) and the extensibility you envisioned never came to fruition and now it's just a liability spread across 8 source files.
• i_s 3y ago
  Not if he does the type of job hopping typical in silicon valley. There are plenty of programmers who only stay at a job ~2 years, and never have to maintain a program over a long period. You could imagine such a person saying 'this worked well at my last job' and just keep introducing that kind of pattern to new companies, eventually with '20 years of experience'.
  • bluGill 3y ago
    Of course really it is 6 months of experience repeated 40 times.