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Merge then review (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by agilob to c/programmer_humor

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Move fast and break things.
Merge vulnerabilities.
Double the work.
Merge code without tests.
Anything, but don't let code become stale.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Peer reviews can catch bugs that tests can't catch.

I won't disagree that peer reviews are overrated, but they're a great way to train and onboard less experienced devs (who are just more fun to work with, anyway). Like I'm a platform dev, so I don't have a "home" project - if I had to know every project before I opened a PR for it, I'd get hardly any work done. Review help other knowledge experts weigh in on my changes.

Anyway, one case for being pro