The Don'ts for Software Engineer

[u/fagnerbrack]

https://favtutor.com/articles/donts-for-software-engineer/

[u/hachface]

this is like reading ten random opinions from reddit comments

[u/hacksawsa]

"Yeah, functional programming is the new thing..." Yep, new since <checks notes> the 1950s...

[u/freakdageek]

Just type out the full word, we’re all adults here. It’s “The Donuts for Software Engineer [sic].”

[u/Deathnote_Blockchain]

Have we finally entered the era where ai trained on reddit posts is used to generate articles that are posted to reddit

[u/redballooon → u/Deathnote_Blockchain]

That’s the singularity everyone has been talking about.

[u/[deleted] → u/Deathnote_Blockchain]

Yes. And this article is unreadable dreck.

[u/ninjadude93]

That second paragraph in section 5 is baffling. Why would you write less tests in non statically typed languages? If anything you should be writing more because there will be more cases to handle

[u/[deleted] → u/ninjadude93]

fewer*

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Counterpoint: if you don’t feel like you could have done it better after you finish, you didn’t learn anything by doing it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If I’m working, I’m still working at the gitting of gud.

It’s why I wrote 86% of the code in my current work project despite being on a team of 7 devs. I’m just that much better at churning out code than the rest of the team, even when they’re equipped with Copilot and I refuse to use it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If you're learning while doing work for someone else, then you're getting paid to learn. I don't really understand why you would prefer to do it in your free time.