Friendly reminder:

Be irreplaceable. Don't code clean code. Codely it messy. Make it so fucked up that only you understand the codebase.

Make it LLM model can't understand jack shit.

Then ask for higher pay, otherwise resign leaving them a messy code

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#motivation

Good luck explaining that to the next company you apply for.

Make it messy, that gives you job security. Maybe you'll even get extra coworkers (buffers) because of that.

Nah, I aim for a 7 quality and just don't document more than fits on the repo Readme file. Tests are best docs.

@kamen you don't have to tell anything.

You have signed a no disclosure agreement.

As somewhat of an "artist" (as in, I love programming for the sake of programming, and love the process as much as the end result, I enjoy it as "art") this hurts my very soul, but also you're not technically wrong :(

@retoor A GOOD set if tests make for great documentation yes, but actuall text documentation is in my opinion more important. Tests are just examples.

@SoldierOfCode njet 😁 Tests are maintained by force, you can't have them outdated. Docs on the other hand. Many people are just bad at it and don't care about it. Maybe you're used to high quality docs from university but many companies just don't. You want to write a freaking document with 2000 tickets on the backlog.

@SoldierOfCode meh, llm's performing so well destroyed my art-image of programming a bit. While AI is by far far far not in replace mode (I repeat, by far) they shown that much more of what I do isn't such art at all. Also, their code is mostly good stuff. They're the average from the internet and a few good books, just like us. I think in future code quality will matter less. It will be compensated whit good automated tests. I think that's the future. Programming as art will become something legacy just as some people think about c. Like "why would you do that, it's possible with x too" costing a whole server rack facing scaling issues that normally maybe not didn't had to schale at all. That's the future, big phat ass hardware. More cloud than ever because every simple webapp needs a freaking GPU bevause they multiply two by two using a cent costing enterprise llm call. I'll end up as the only dev and you'll all become farmers :( Mark my words slowpokes! 😁 Milk a cow! 😁

I can't stand messy code for my own sanity

but having left an employer who were ungrateful dicks to me and seeing them still make money off what I wrote for them despite them having dysfunctional employees does hit me sometimes 😔

Knowledge is replaceable. Skill isn't.

I wonder how long until companies do "exit interviews" with AIs that just probe you for all the documentation and then pop it up on a website/file somewhere

I'm probably thinking they're more competent again

Okay but how much worse does my code be for this to become the case?

Companies don't care. They'll let you leave and then blame the next guy for not understanding the slop you left behind

That’s so fucked up.
If you really think that way, then you are not hired as an engineer but as a code monkey.

You are irreplaceable when you are the guy who solve production bug in five minutes. You are nothing but a burden if your code is unreadable. I will remove you from the team early.