A Rant About Professional Programming - Prime Reacts

sphaerophoria and tsoding are the two most impressive programmers to watch. For the same reason. They have limitless curiosity and a good nose for sniffing out BS

"I don't care if someone makes a bunch of stupid or bad decisions, as long as the product is good." man I wonder if there's a way to increase the probability of the product being good...

It's 2 things. You build something quick to please the business, you write something good to please the coworkers that also have to deal with it. So really a professional programmer is someone that can really balance both worlds maybe.

Code quality is like a clean working environment. I don't care if the floor was clean where my car was assembled. But I'm sure it made it easier ( and more economic ) to assemble a car in a clean environment and they didn't have to worry as much about dirtying the end product before selling it.

Prime: stops video ever 2 seconds to go on a 5 min rant. Also Prime: “what is this guy talking about?”

"the pragmatic programmer" has a great chapter on code quality that i've come to subscribe to. especially, they bring up a "broken window" analogy that essentially boils down to "neglect accelerates the rot faster than any other factor". very much a recommended read.

if my old code doesn't annoy me, I'm not making progress.

"There's ten years of experience, and there's one year of experience ten times."

10:20 "It's older code, but it checks out." "Systems, more than people, create things that suck." Systems make things repeatable. If people made a thing that sucks, the system makes the suck repeatable.

He is so right about work incentivising doing a bad job.