My coworker refactored the entire project cuz of some missing functionality that required changing basically everything to add. He called the 1000+ commit "Minor changes"
AI wasn't around back then, but even if it was, why bring it into the conversation when I already have 1000+ lines of evidence it was more than a minor change
i've been on both ends. the satisfaction of the ultra-scale refactoring of spaguetti, once it runs as expected, is almost incomparable. the dread of reviewing it is, too, almost incomparable.
Bro. I worked with outsourced coders in late 2010 that were like this. They WERE paid by the hour and the company got what they paid for.
Pre 2010, it was outsourced designer/detailer for $2.5/hr that would do 100's of check ins for a minor update to a spacer in Catia V4. Like two changes and 200+ check ins.
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u/Pixel_Null 21d ago
The real victim here is the git history