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> The most effective contributors at your job remove more code than they add Perhaps they tackle non-code-editing tasks like architecture, design, mentoring an
by overfeed 4mo ago
> The most effective contributors at your job remove more code than they add
Perhaps they tackle non-code-editing tasks like architecture, design, mentoring and code review (think staff and principal tasks)
> Every line of code removed is a line that was previously added
Yes. This os not a failure. Code has a surprisingly short half-life.
- 4lx87 4mo agoIt’s not a failure that resources were spent writing code that was not needed?
- gf000 4mo agoMaybe it was temporarily needed, but the assumptions around it has changed and now it's unneeded. Then people built on top of that not understanding that they could simplify the whole system, and only later was that option discovered. What would you keep from this?
- overfeed 4mo agoIt's only a failure if perfect information was available at the time, an impossibility for most people.
- e12e 4mo agoWrite one (system) to throw away...