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GeneralRe: You ever produce code you know is stupid, but you don't know a better way to do it? Pin
jochance27-Jun-24 10:30
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Sort of.

The first several years I was in software development, I learned more and more, which helped me to improve code I had already written. It wasn't that my code was "stupid", but that I just learned newer and better ways.

Second, as the language I use improves, it provides better ways to do things, but it is up to me to discern whether the "better way" is really better.

Third, there are those team leads who are less knowledgeable and experienced, and make me rewrite code to how they think it should be done, even though I can make the clear case their way is not better. In those cases, I do what the lead says do, then inform him or her of the shortcomings it causes. In a lot of cases, they then agree (after a lot of wasted time) that I should do it the way I had it. Sometimes, though, pride gets in their way, and they make me put out the stupid code into production - problems and all.

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