Me as a junior dev writing 1000 lines of spaghetti code everyday: “Let’s go!!!”
Me as a senior dev writing 5 lines of code everyday and spent the rest of the day reviewing thousands LoC commits from my juniors: “I didn’t sign up for this. I should’ve learn carpentry instead.”
That’s more like it. Also, the more senior I became the more my LoC “productivity” became negative. Now, I get pleasure from deleting obsolete shit or replacing error prone spaghetti with a simple API call the author did not know about (more often than I like to admit that author is myself).
The worst part of being a senior dev is doing all the responsibilities as a team lead but not having the resources in place to not be required to be an individual contributor. I can’t imagine many people wake up each morning excited to be wearing both hats and doing a poor job at each.
“I didn’t sign up for this. I should’ve learn carpentry instead.”
I know a programmer who got fed up with corporate bullshit and did exactly that; they just got their diploma from a vocational school and now they’re officially a carpenter.
Me as a junior dev writing 1000 lines of spaghetti code everyday: “Let’s go!!!”
Me as a senior dev writing 5 lines of code everyday and spent the rest of the day reviewing thousands LoC commits from my juniors: “I didn’t sign up for this. I should’ve learn carpentry instead.”
That’s more like it. Also, the more senior I became the more my LoC “productivity” became negative. Now, I get pleasure from deleting obsolete shit or replacing error prone spaghetti with a simple API call the author did not know about (more often than I like to admit that author is myself).
The worst part of being a senior dev is doing all the responsibilities as a team lead but not having the resources in place to not be required to be an individual contributor. I can’t imagine many people wake up each morning excited to be wearing both hats and doing a poor job at each.
All a part of the process of becoming senior, no?
You make all of the mistakes, learn from them, and then try to prevent them in the rest of the code base.
Newbie tradesmen: laughs in the wrong kind of screw.
I know a programmer who got fed up with corporate bullshit and did exactly that; they just got their diploma from a vocational school and now they’re officially a carpenter.