Re:Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
by hinkley on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:12PM
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> The wrong type of super-long-tenured engineer
Once you start thinking about the code in terms of memorization you’re a hazard to your coworkers. It’s one of the reasons I like to try to move about on projects.
When you built the code you had to think about two or three concepts at once. Then new functionality added another concern, and another, and another. For you, each addition was one more thing on a pile you already knew.
For someone new looking at that code, they have to now juggle ten things at once, so they either run away, or they learn by breaking things. Which the frustrated tenured person may use as confirmation bias about how all the new hires are worthless and we should only trust senior people. When really the entire situation is your fucking fault.
Once you start thinking about the code in terms of memorization you’re a hazard to your coworkers. It’s one of the reasons I like to try to move about on projects.
When you built the code you had to think about two or three concepts at once. Then new functionality added another concern, and another, and another. For you, each addition was one more thing on a pile you already knew.
For someone new looking at that code, they have to now juggle ten things at once, so they either run away, or they learn by breaking things. Which the frustrated tenured person may use as confirmation bias about how all the new hires are worthless and we should only trust senior people. When really the entire situation is your fucking fault.