Re:The curse of being good in IT
by physicles on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:57PM
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> Developers are drawn like hawks to a possible whiff of over complexity
In my experience, juniors tend to pick solutions without considering complexity and people factors — at least, I did. There’s a very good reason to avoid over-complexity: if you have too much of it, it kills your velocity.
> to a predisposition of being always staying slightly uncomfortable
I love that feeling of always moving forward. Tech that you didn’t know about a year ago, is now part of your normal workflow. That feeling when you start exploring something totally new and it takes a week to get comfortable with hello world, and a month (or years) to learn exactly where it should fit and what the sharp edges are.
In my experience, juniors tend to pick solutions without considering complexity and people factors — at least, I did. There’s a very good reason to avoid over-complexity: if you have too much of it, it kills your velocity.
> to a predisposition of being always staying slightly uncomfortable
I love that feeling of always moving forward. Tech that you didn’t know about a year ago, is now part of your normal workflow. That feeling when you start exploring something totally new and it takes a week to get comfortable with hello world, and a month (or years) to learn exactly where it should fit and what the sharp edges are.