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I don't know. Your comment feels like alien. The first line under the first bold heading is: "Remember your first day reading production code? Without any expe
by coldtea 2y ago
I don't know. Your comment feels like alien. The first line under the first bold heading is:
"Remember your first day reading production code? Without any experience with handling mature codebases, you probably quickly get lost in the details".
Which looks pretty much accurate. And yes, this includes the (later) implied idea that many juniors would read a PR in some kind of linear order, or at least, not read it in order of importance, or don't know how to properly order their PR code reading. And yes, some just click in the order Github shows the changed files.
Not that for 99% of the industry, "junior dev" is not the same as something like:
"just out of uni person with 12+ years of experience programming since age 10, who built a couple of toy compilers before they were 16, graduated Stanford, and was recently hired at my FAANG team"
It's usually something bewteen that and the DailyWTF fare, often closer to the latter.
- lolinder 2y agoThe article was updated, probably in response to the parent comment. It used to read this: > Remember your first day reading production code? You probably did what I did - start at line 1, read every file top to bottom, get lost in the details. I copied before refreshing, and sure enough that line was modified.