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It's ambiguous to the point where 'just get to work' can be seen as the action that the effective senior devs do: They are not afraid to touch it. They never
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
It's ambiguous to the point where 'just get to work' can be seen as the action that the effective senior devs do:
They are not afraid to touch it.
They never say “that’s not for me”
Instead, they just start and learn.
- wat10000 2y agoI recently spent a couple of days tracking down a problem that one of my coworkers, who built the subsystem where the bug was lurking, probably could have figured out in an hour or two at most. Why didn’t I hand it off? Because I need to know how this subsystem works. It’s important and quite complicated and this is not going to be the last bug we have, or the last change it needs. It’s part of what I work on so I should understand it. The payoff wasn’t just fixing the bug, it was learning enough to know how to fix it.