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ibash | 4 months ago

But if you advocate for this now, newer engineers think you’re doing it wrong.

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embedding-shape|4 months ago

It's really a company/team culture thing. Either you end up grouped together with people who always chase the latest fads and cargocult their way to their promotions, or you end up with the "Justify everything" camp where anything new is shit on.

Ideally, you end up in a company/team that sits somewhere in the middle, faithfully evaluating the trade-offs of everything, and don't spend 60% of their time reading the latest news from blogs and social media.

lateforwork|4 months ago

Right. Anything other than the most popular way of doing things is "wrong" to them. That's how mistakes get established. This non-questioning attitude seems especially true among frontend developers.

ibash|4 months ago

Influencer marketing is a big part of the problem here.

The best practices engineering influencers shill are geared towards shipping a todo list quickly, and no thought is given towards maintainability.

pohl|4 months ago

To be fair, though, through their eyes everything looks like a nail.