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> Put in whatever level of rigor matches your project needs, personal interest, and schedule! This is the most refreshing, grounded response I've gotten in awh
by straydusk 7mo ago
> Put in whatever level of rigor matches your project needs, personal interest, and schedule!
This is the most refreshing, grounded response I've gotten in awhile <3
- whaleidk 7mo agoWell, when you clickbait/lie about your own premise you can’t really expect a decent conversation lol
- straydusk 7mo ago?? What
- whaleidk 7mo agoYou claim you don’t read the code. People believe you. Later you reveal that actually you do read the code, as well as metrics about the code. You just don’t read line by line and scrutinize them individually. Then you want to say their opinions weren’t grounded, but all that happened is you misrepresented your own argument
- straydusk 7mo agoIn certain, extenuating circumstances, I will read the code. It is not in my common / critical path. It's not how I'd describe my workflow.
- whaleidk 7mo agoAll I’m saying is that by ‘I don’t read code,’ I mean: I don’t do line-by-line review as my primary verification method for most product code. I do read specs, tests, diffs selectively, and production signals - and I would advocate escalating to code-reading for specific classes of risk. Is not at all what people consider “not reading the code” to be