[dkarl]

I think early to mid is too soon to be focused on others' work. Early to mid, you should be focused on the quality of your own work, because you're still developing your taste and judgment, and you need the direct and vivid feedback you get from immersing yourself in the consequences of the decisions you make. A huge trap in software development is to get disconnected from feedback and be a slave to rumor, ideology, and religious "best practices." The air is full of bullshit (in no small part because everyone is trying to "solidify their brand as an individual" and "amplify the good they do" before they actually learn the job) and the best way to learn how to sort through it is by grounding yourself in the consequences of making this decisions versus that one, choosing this approach versus that one.

If you start "amplifying" too early, you won't be amplifying selectively, and your coworkers would be just as well off sorting through search results themselves.

(Of course it's a progressive transition, and you're never too inexperienced to advise a coworker not to force-push master or submit a PR with failing tests.)