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I used to be really good at working with big balls of mud. I actually even started enjoying it at some point - it felt like a mixture between a crossword puzzl
by hitchstory 2y ago
I used to be really good at working with big balls of mud.
I actually even started enjoying it at some point - it felt like a mixture between a crossword puzzle and archaeology. There was also something nice about being good at something other people hated that was nonetheless very critical.
Somewhat ironically though, the better I got at it, the class of job I got the better the quality of the code I ended up working with.
Now my mud wrestling skills have atrophied a fair bit.
- gedy 2y agoThe article calls these folks "swamp guides"
- worstspotgain 2y ago> a mixture between a crossword puzzle and archaeology Cue cave escape scene chased by huge rolling boulder.
- seabrookmx 2y agoI really think that archaeology you speak of is great for building skills, and as a result when giving the opportunity you start building much more elegant solutions. My career path has followed a similar trajectory but I do enjoy a good "mud wrestle" as you call it every now and then :)
- eitally 2y agoGenerally speaking, mud wrestling jobs exist in traditional IT departments, not tech product companies, and the jobs pay far less than those where the code is the product. For better or for worse, but the existence of "big balls of mud" is largely a result of "you get what you pay for" mentalities in non-technical CIOs & CTOs... or industries where IT spend is below some low threshold (e.g. 1% revenue).