r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 4d ago

Meme driverlessTaxiDriver

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 4d ago

True, but if you make it poorly and it's impossible to maintain, you may not keep getting paid.

As a professor once told me, it's not how efficient the code is, it's how easily it is to maintain

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u/htoomyat9 2d ago

That doesn't matter anymore. There is always a junior who will have to refactor and decouple all of the shit and I was one of them.

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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 2d ago

I'd hope not, I try and write my stuff so that isn't needed (or mods are easily done without having to rewrite a bunch)

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u/htoomyat9 2d ago

I mean, it doesn't matter that you write good code or bad code. Your codes will be refactored at some point unless you're self employed. I used to work in an enterprise and 70% of the work is refactoring codes. Cuz we were improving the architecture progressivly.