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Depends. I think that becomes a question of the quality of the programmer - if they were doing it all themselves, the code quality of the (necessarily much smal
by generalizations 1y ago
Depends. I think that becomes a question of the quality of the programmer - if they were doing it all themselves, the code quality of the (necessarily much smaller) projects would still vary between programmers. Now that variation is magnified, but if you're very good at what you do, I suspect it is still possible to create those projects without the tech debt. Though at the lower end of that bracket, I'd agree you tend to end up with giant balls of mud.
- eikenberry 1y agoWhen you play architect and delegate all the work to junior developers it won't matter how good you are, you will incur a lot of tech debt. You simply cannot teach/guide every junior into writing good code as that would take more time than writing it yourself. This fact is baked into the juniors analogy.
- generalizations 1y agoIMHO it depends on how good you are at being a senior programmer / architect. Put the juniors where they can't do harm, and orchestrate them appropriately. The whole point of employing juniors is that you don't assign a senior to rewrite everything they do.