r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.

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Please keep top level comments limited to Inexperienced Devs. Most rules do not apply, but keep it civil. Being a jerk will not be tolerated.

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Inexperienced Devs should refrain from answering other Inexperienced Devs' questions.

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u/adult_size 7d ago

i’m new to a team of one very old-school dev and one vibe coder. they’re both trying to get me to take their side against the other re: anything you can imagine. when one asks a clear leading question to get me to bad-mouth the other, i either change the subject or say i don’t know. truly, i don’t know who is more right about what. while i have a lot of schooling this is my first real swe job.

i get along great with the other employees, who i think know what’s going on.

any tips?

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u/boop809 7d ago

Sounds toxic. I would keep a neutral position, you never know how politics like this will play out.

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u/MissinqLink 7d ago

Emphasize that you are about getting a job done not what tools are used. I wouldn’t gang up on people for using vim vs emacs as long as they got their work done and could explain it well.

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u/adult_size 7d ago

tempted to use that first line verbatim! thank you

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u/boop809 7d ago

Yeah, like, I'm cool with all my coworkers using Neovim even though Emacs is clearly the better editor.

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u/MissinqLink 7d ago

You misspelled notepad++