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let me back up and try once more to respect your opinion

The point of me saying that was to imply I’ve been in the industry for a couple of decades, and have a good amount of experience from before all this. It wasn’t any kind of appeal to authority, but I can see how you can read it that way.

jesus fuck I hope the poor bastards that under you find some other place real soon, you sound like a godawful leader

I’m sorry, do you trust junior engineers blindly? That’s gonna lead to a much worse outcome than if they get feedback when they do something wrong. Frankly, I don’t trust any engineer to be perfect, we’re humans and humans make mistakes, that’s why we do code review as a fundamental skill in this industry. It’s one of the primary ways for people to develop their ability.

yep yep! as we all know, velocity is all that matters! crank that handle, produce those features! the factory must flow!!

In an industry where many companies are tightening the belt, yes it’s important to perform well—I kinda want to keep my job and ideally get a good bonus. It would be pretty foolish to leave free productivity on the table when the alternative is working harder to bridge the gap, where I could spend that energy doing more productive stuff.

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I’m sorry, do you trust junior engineers blindly?

as a starting position, fucking YES. you know why I hired that person? because I believe they can do the job and grow in it. you know what happens if they make a mistake? I give them all the goddamn backup they need to handle it and grow.

“this is why code review is so important” jfc. you’re one of those “I’ve worked here for 4 years and I’m a senior” types, aren’t you

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@froztbyte @9point6 There’s a distinct difference between “I have twenty years of experience” and “I’ve had the same ten minutes of experience over and over again, over a twenty year period” 🤷

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Oh jesus christ now I get it.

Thank you. This single sentence explains to me how the fuck those people are able to exist for 20 years and still be so shit at their job.

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yep. on topic of which, this excellent post

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So you don’t do code review? Something that’s pretty much industry standard?

What on earth do you work on where it’s inconsequential to trust someone new to the industry blindly?

If I could trust someone anything remotely close to “blindly”, they absolutely would not have been hired as a junior.

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yep yep. no code review. no version control either. that’s weak shit only babies use. over here you deploy patches by live editing app memory in production, and you update the codebase by editing the central repo using vscode remote. everyone has access to it because monorepos are what google do and so do we.

you have a 100% correct comprehension takeaway of what I said, well done!

jfc no wonder you’re fine with LLMs

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I, for one, am not in the industry and can’t figure out why people are coming at you with guns blazing. 🙄

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I kinda want to keep my job and ideally get a good bonus.

fuck you

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“I just want to be a cog in the machiiiiiiine why are you bringing up these things that make me think?! ew ethics and integrity are so hard

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