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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by spike021 on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:47PM (#43081489)
ironically most people can say the same about coming back and reading their own old code
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by klik99 on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:19PM (#43081785)
I forget who said it “The worst programmer I’ve ever seen is me a year ago.”

I found it true for the first five years into my career, now it’s still true but with a longer time scale, which I suppose is progress

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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by rectang on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:10PM (#43083317)
"No wonder that didn't work."
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by samus on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:00PM (#43081619)
In important regards, you sometimes become a different person :-)
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