News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer. Parent comment

Re:The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer by iaseiadit on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:53PM (#42604002)
When I started out, I did read code top-to-bottom. I was mostly self-taught and didn't have a mental model yet of how code was structured, so I relied on this "brute force" method to familiarize myself.

I suppose it's not safe to assume that everyone started out like this. But advael is guilty of assuming that nobody started out like this. And on top of that, conveying it in a very negative and critical way. Don't get discouraged.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer by Jtsummers on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:13PM (#42604162)
This discussion is about junior professionals, not zero experience programmers. If a junior professional programmer is still starting at the top of files instead of at the entry points to the program or the points of interest, then they had a very poor education.
[ Parent | on HN ]