[Rapzid]

Not everyone has a master craftsman in them. Some people will show up in a new code base and need to do something; their first instinct will be to look around and try to fit their change in with the established conventions.

They are the minority.

Most will show up and handjam their change in the only way they know how. There will be no concern for the forest. Their job is processing trees after all.

This is something that was on my mind in the Google PR review thread. Not everyone is a "peer" in code reviews. There will be a certain cabal on equal footing, but there will be many more people who are simply contributors.

This is where people like the author come in; Project leads.

[hinkley]

What gets me is that people are willing to write the same code dozens of times. It’s just a tool in their toolbox. It never seems to occur to them that our job is substantially about automating predicable things.