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throwaway4354
5y ago
Yep this so much. It is not that code is brittle but problem space is hard. What seems like an obvious fix may break other vendors that depend on same behavior etc. Having said all of that. Modesty is a thing and many engineers wouldn'
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throwaway4354
5y ago
Deep familiarity with a complex code base is a thing and is not easily replicated. I have seen this first hand. In my day job - I work on a very popular but complex open source project and in my team there is a engineer who has been there s