Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by cdavid on Sunday October 30, 2022 @08:28AM (#33393852)

In your career, how often have you seen good software engineers whose main contribution was deleting code ?

Please take my argument in good faith: I am not looking at evaluating people based on their added LOC. The context is at orgs where I have reason to believe some people are slacking off, and looking for people who do next to nothing.

That's much more common than people who magically make everyone more effective by only deleting code.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by Thews on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:27AM (#33394767)

I've seen a few projects across different organizations where an old dev was bad at copying and pasting code and ignored DRY principles. The projects had almost no refactoring, and the primary goal of a new dev was cleaning up the redundancy to better map things out for better organization of the codebase.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by jjav on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:49AM (#33394935)

> In your career, how often have you seen good software engineers whose main contribution was deleting code ?

Depends on the size and age of the company. In a startup, approximately never since the job is to build something out of nothing.

In a large enterprise with decades of codebase history to be optimized, very frequently.

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by iopq on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:40AM (#33419321)

Yes, I have had to clean up a 300,000 LOC codebase and my primary contribution was deleting old code and reusing code we already had

I did say I wrote 30 lines of code, which was reusing other code instead of copy-pasting and changing a few things

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