• Mixel@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    I have heard things from another apprentice who just does not use version control at all and the only copies are on his laptop and on his desktop. He is also using node.js with only 1 class and doesn’t know about OOP (not sure if you even use that in js no clue 😅) and has one big file with 20k lines of code I have absolutely no clue how he navigates through it

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      1 month ago

      Those are rookie numbers. I have at least a 35k one somewhere. More than one actually.

      People run their businesses on this.

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I know the type. Usually the kind of confident know-it-all who refuses to learn anything but delivers changes really quickly so management loves them. I had the misfortune to fix such a project after that ‘rock-star’ programmer left the company. Unfortunately the lack of professional standards in our industry allows people like that to continuously fail upwards. When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

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        When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

        Lol. Wow.

        And that is why I’ve been unable to work myself out of a job in all my long years as a developer.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        We really need some kind of board like the one that controls the title for engineers.

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        1 month ago

        My company for the longest time had two engineers they would give all the new projects to. They would rush through some prototype code as fast as they could then management would bring in a new team to take the project over. The code was always garbage and crammed into one place. I kept getting new projects and instead of starting from a nice clean slate we always had to build on that garbage. It sucked so bad.

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        Jesus, reminds me of a similar story. My gf once lost a job to someone who literally just pasted code into LLMs, also delivering quickly, even tho it was hot garbage. Anyhow, she spent a lot of her time fixing his shit and so her output went down. I hope that company burns to the ground with completely un manageable software.