Sucking Less Every Year ?
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Sucking Less Every Year A trail of thought that had been on my mind for a while
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I've often thought that sucking less every year is how humble programmers improve. You should be unhappy with code you wrote a year ago. If you aren't, that means either A) you haven't learned anything in a year, B) your code can't be improved, or C) you never revisit old code. All of these are the kiss of death for software developers.
- How often does this happen or not happen to you?
- How long before you see an actual improvement in your coding ? month, year?
- Do you ever revisit Your old code?
- How often does your old code plague you? or how often do you have to deal with your technical debt.
It is definitely very painful to fix old bugs n dirty code that we may have done to quickly meet a deadline and those quick fixes ,some cases we may have to rewrite most of the application/code. No arguments about that.
Some of the developers i had come across argued that they were already at the evolved stage where their coding doesn't need improvement or cant get improved anymore.
- Does this happen?
- If so how many years into coding on a particular language does one expect this to happen?
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