Re:Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
by strken on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:56PM
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Having a plan B for things is a bit silly sometimes. If you need to parse some data, your plan A is to write a parser, and your plan B is...to write a parser in a slightly different way? Pair program as you write the parser? That's not really plan B, it's just redoing plan A if you mess up.
Plan Bs make sense for external dependencies, but for internal work they imply your current solution has feasible alternatives, which is often nonsensical.
Plan Bs make sense for external dependencies, but for internal work they imply your current solution has feasible alternatives, which is often nonsensical.