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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 135 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not even. Your job isn’t to protect prod, it’s to take the blame when prod goes down.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If they expect you to write or go through 1000s of lines of code in a single day. your whole job isn't programming, is to be the scapegoat.

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If I can't understand the code, and you can't explain, I'm not validating your pull request.

End of story.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 19 minutes ago

Just ask ChatGPT to explain the code