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Agree. It’s very hard for anyone who isn’t the author, or otherwise intimately familiar with the code, to understand changes at a glance. The reader needs hig
by corytheboyd 2y ago
Agree.
It’s very hard for anyone who isn’t the author, or otherwise intimately familiar with the code, to understand changes at a glance. The reader needs high level explanations and documentation to quickly build the correct mental model to understand the change in context.
If you can look at 1000 lines of diff and accurately tell what it’s doing, and much more importantly, the upstream and downstream implications… you’re either lying, or somehow work in a perfect hermetic vacuum of verifiability that I am very jealous of.