Programming

Yeah I mean obviously the technical points here are correct (and I wish my colleagues would write more robust code with less Bash and regex all over the place), but I don't know why he thinks you need an asshole manager to deliver that message.

Over-engineered. Too many moving parts. Refactor.”

That was it. No “nice work.” No “good attempt”. Just a hard stop.

Uhm yeah, would writing "good attempt" have hurt? Obviously not. He could easily have been nice and still deliver the technical information.

Good attempt, but I think this is too over-engineered with too many moving parts. For instance x y z would be simpler to maintain, and a b c isn't robust to 1 2 3 for example.

It doesn't take much. Don't be a dick.

Sounds more like a tech lead than a manager.

Unrelated, but substack links seem to contain a lot of slop nowadays. Bear blog for the win.

Did anyone run this through a few AI content scanners? This article was boring and pointless. I thought this was the programing feed and not butt sucking.

Everything the author describes can still be accomplished by being diplomatic and understanding without being confrontational and direct. Plus, you build a better, more resilient team that way.

I'm not really sure the author learnt what he thought he learnt.

There are maybe three sentences worth of content.

Wrapped.

In stutters.

That make.

It.

Super hard.

To read.

It drives me nuts on LinkedIn; it’s sad to see it’s made the jump to “longform” on substack.

I stopped coding for myself and started coding for the next person who’d touch my codebase.

Yeah. The worst code is the code only one person can work with. Sucks if that person is no longer working at the company.

What's with the image thumbnail that doesn't appear in the article? It also looks like AI slop.

The content is good, but c'mon.

Over-engineered. Too many moving parts. Refactor

Why would a manager give his opinion on code?

I had one of these when I was loaned out to another department. He made me realize that my manager is terrible and I need a new job.

We have an engineering manager that's about the same, the only issue is that they let PR through because features are wanted and there's no time to get things right.

I think, I may be pleased to have to redo everything several times to make it better and simpler, but what we get is that everything is bad but we'll still merge 😞

I now feel at several times I fucked up quite a lot by making something that works but not something simpler.