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by amarant 410 days ago
Tbf, some colleagues I've had were introducing more bugs than features just fine before LLM's were even a thing.

I've once been at company that had 90%+ such colleagues.

Uff, if that is the future of this industry, I'll retire as well

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At least you can correct them, right? Imagine working with pure vibe coders with no CS degree or even a bootcamp under their belt.
I've had one co-worker with something like a decade of experience on paper, who was proud of his C++ despite having never heard of the standard template library — lots of `new` and `free`, not a single smart pointer (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory#Smart_pointers). And the code they wrote had a lot of copy-paste going on, which I ended up finding because I'd put in a "TODO: deduplicate this" comment somewhere and found it in his newly duplicated class one day.

They absolutely were not interested in learning anything. I left knowing more C++ than they did despite having started there with total C++ experience of a hello world tutorial, and the fact that I still don't count myself as a C++ dev today.

To be fair when a company says they use C++, it can mean anything from "C with classes" to crazy metaprogramming with almost automatic memory management. Since they have over 10 years experience, they are almost definitely in the former camp.

I would never utter the phrase "I know C++" because it can mean so many different things to so many different people, and I don't think anyone truly knows the whole language.

Not using templates nor smart pointers doesn't sound that bad to me(unless the entirety/majority of the codebase was written with them in mind), the duplication thing is more questionable.

It's not so much that this specific person didn't use smart pointers, it's that they had never even heard of them, and wasn't interested either.

"C with classes" is probably a good description, given what I saw from that one person — they didn't understand sub-typing either, and only had a cargo-cult understanding of access specifiers (revealed when the rest of us asked them why they'd duplicated a class file rather than subtyping).

Tbh, I also (sort of) knew C++, studied in school and a few semesters worth in college (CUDA, DSA, Computer vision elective,compiler design) but I still don't know STL. (I had been then interviewing using Java and Python.)
Nope! I reverted a commit once, since a colleague pushed something that didn't compile to master. Sent the guy a polite message notifying him that something seems to have been amiss with his last commit, and to please let me know if he wanted help fixing it.

Boss called me 5 minutes later and tells me off for creating "bad vibes" in the work environment.

Colleague then proceeded to forcepush his "fix" that still didn't even compile to master, removing a new feature I was about to roll out to production, because he didn't know how to merge his changes with the revert commit I'd added

This was when I decided to quit

Oh I should add this developer bragged he had 10+years working experience. Not that I believe him, but still