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> Have you inherited a codebase written by a coding rockstar. It works, but it’s a tangled mess. Have you ever inherited a codebase written by a 0.1x developer

by sjducb 3y ago

> Have you inherited a codebase written by a coding rockstar. It works, but it’s a tangled mess. Have you ever inherited a codebase written by a 0.1x developer? Genuine question, I never have.

icedchai 3y ago
I have. It was a pile of “serverless” crap. Zero tests. No ability to run locally. Few comments. Copy-pasted code everywhere. Productivity was incredibly low since people edited code in the AWS console.
- nusl 3y ago
  I think you misunderstood the question and/or the article
  - icedchai 3y ago
    Maybe you misunderstood my answer. I was answering the question in terms of what I consider to be a 0.1x developer. They are not fast and they don't get things done.
    - nusl 3y ago
      Cool stuff.
blibble 3y ago
yes no tests, giant byte arrays being used for global state instead of objects in scope defined classes (with associated reuse bugs everywhere) same thing copied and pasted 40 times with slight modifications for no obvious reason copies of variable named "more" or "2" because they didn't know how to grow data structures and then add multi-threading into that