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A tool I wrote at a previous job was thrown out after a few years of everyday use within the team. The team lead had noticed that my 300 or so lines of code was
by andrelaszlo 3y ago
A tool I wrote at a previous job was thrown out after a few years of everyday use within the team. The team lead had noticed that my 300 or so lines of code was unnecessarily complex and could be replaced by ten lines of $TEAM_LEADS_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE. So it was.
Every few weeks someone came to me complaining that something didnt work in "my" tool. Thanks to git I could port the old, working code over to the new tool almost every time. Eventually the 10 lines grew to a few hundred again.
- mellutussa 3y agoI once worked with a guy that probably would be classed as a 10x developer. Always when the discussion about an edge case came up, he'd dismiss it as "that's never gonna happen". The of course when those never-gonna-happen things happened, he would absolutely not want the responsibility to fix them.
- sealeck 3y agoIt's easy to convince management you are brilliant by tackling the common cases of a problem and leaving the edge cases to someone else to solve further down the line.