[beryilma]

> If you ask a developer if they’ve ever written bad code, they will most likely say no. I’m guilty of this as well. I don’t remember ever writing bad code; ...

What an utterly nonsensical article. Not a single developer ever said that.

[gipp]

Agree that this statement is way off, but the rest of the article is hardly "nonsensical." Did you stop reading here?

[beryilma]

No. The full article does not make sense. As an example, I have never seen, in my 23 years of professional software development experience, overconfidence be a reason for a project's failure.

[Tainnor]

You've never seen the "we can rewrite this legacy system in a year" mistake? Because I've seen this at least 4 different times.

[beryilma]

Good point. I've seen something similar to it, but it was a failure of the management, not developers. The management says "we painted ourselves into a corner and now we need to replace this legacy system with a modern implementation. It shouldn't take more a couple of years". The rewrite took almost 10 years to complete. If anything, the part that I would call as developers' failure was the inability to push back with realistic timelines.

[Tainnor]

I've seen it play out differently, with developers (especially seniors) pushing for their favourite tech. "We're gonna make the new system event based with Kafka", etc.

[injb]

I literally just had to shoot this exact idea down this sprint.