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This article actually makes me angry, because this kind of attitude is why I have to deal with such on amount of clueless hacks, who call themselves something t

This article actually makes me angry, because this kind of attitude is why I have to deal with such on amount of clueless hacks, who call themselves something they are not. Sure, if it's between you and your mom, you can call yourself whatever you like. But if I pay you to do something, and you say you are that thing, but all you did so far is read a "... for dummies" book and plan to learn on the job - paid by me, that gets my blood boiling. I'm all for personal growth, and I've switched careers a number of times in my life, but I came prepared with long years of study each time, and at least some experience. And I was always open about it. So, please, if you follow this guy's advice, at least make sure to be open about your _level_ of being a developer or whatever.

EnderMB 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. I've worked with far too many freelancers that claim to know something in order to get business, only to then realise that what I'd paid for was hacked together; the kind of work that I wouldn't hire if this freelancer had come in for a full-time role. This advice works, but only in certain jobs/situations. If you're an internal developer then this is an entirely reasonable thing to do, but more often than not some poor person is going to have to go through your awful code. It's this attitude that adds countless hours of fixes onto a system several years down the line.