Just get your rest folks. Work isn't going to give you a medal for "most late nights" or "closest flirtation with burnout". If your boss hasn't allocated enough resources to reach the goal timeline, you tell them as soon as you realize and then it's their problem.
I've had this run in both directions. Going through the repos a day later: "Holy hell, this solution is [utter shit || truly inspired || elegant AF || written by someone who should probably be fired]. Who wrote this? Me?! I don't remember any of this."
It is absolutely damaging. But the dude knows way more about the tech we use than anybody else on the team. He is autistic as fuck, and his hyperfixation is the Microsoft tech stack.
He spends hours at home watching tutorials because he legit thinks it's fun.
He routinely shows up to work and goes "hey, did you see the new [version of Microsoft package/tool] they finally fixed [thing]!"
And every time I'm just like "no. I did not see that".
He has by far the most experience and knowledge, but he just misuses it like crazy.
Shame he didn't spend time reading up on SOLID principles, clean code, refactoring and TDD. Sounds like Jr parading as a senior. Product nerd != good developer.
Most seniors got burned so much, they refuse to build complex unsupportable stuff. KISS is king with top devs.
The fact this dude has the most experience says everything about your orgs hiring processes. Cheaping out on senior salaries.
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 45 pts · 161d
And you've rewritten it by 11 am, wondering why you didn't go sleep at a decent hour.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 161d
Memories of college days gone by.
Just get your rest folks. Work isn't going to give you a medal for "most late nights" or "closest flirtation with burnout". If your boss hasn't allocated enough resources to reach the goal timeline, you tell them as soon as you realize and then it's their problem.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 161d
Nowadays they reply with You must use AI to be more productive.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 161d
Yeah, if you break your back to get it sorted they just assume they allocated enough resources and will do it again.
It's super hard to let things fail sometimes but in some organizations it's the only actual signal they can respond to.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 161d
6 hours later? Get some fucking sleep, code will be better.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 161d
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 161d
0x0@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 161d
cypherix93@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
It's all a matter of perspective
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 161d
I've had this run in both directions. Going through the repos a day later: "Holy hell, this solution is [utter shit || truly inspired || elegant AF || written by someone who should probably be fired]. Who wrote this? Me?! I don't remember any of this."
The compartmentalization/fugue state is real.
Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 161d
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
That's happened to me enough to almost turn me to the woo side. :D "Answers Come In Dreams."
Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 161d
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 161d
The senior dev on my team does this on a daily basis.
Then the rest of the team gets confused how to use his code because he's buried it in a dozen layers of abstractions.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 161d
That is not a senior dev. That's junior level work cosplaying as clever senior work.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 161d
Yes and no.
It is absolutely damaging. But the dude knows way more about the tech we use than anybody else on the team. He is autistic as fuck, and his hyperfixation is the Microsoft tech stack.
He spends hours at home watching tutorials because he legit thinks it's fun.
He routinely shows up to work and goes "hey, did you see the new [version of Microsoft package/tool] they finally fixed [thing]!"
And every time I'm just like "no. I did not see that".
He has by far the most experience and knowledge, but he just misuses it like crazy.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 161d
Shame he didn't spend time reading up on SOLID principles, clean code, refactoring and TDD. Sounds like Jr parading as a senior. Product nerd != good developer.
Most seniors got burned so much, they refuse to build complex unsupportable stuff. KISS is king with top devs.
The fact this dude has the most experience says everything about your orgs hiring processes. Cheaping out on senior salaries.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 161d
Cheap doesn't even begin to describe it.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 161d
happens to me when i'm drunk; but not too drunk. lol
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 161d
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 161d
I never knew there was an xkcd comic for this. I shall be saving this link for my next late night drinking development session.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 160d
there is an xkcd comic for everything
there are only 3220 things, but a new thing is made daily and the comic creator keeps up with that
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
This graph is also true for bowling.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 161d
of course there's an xkcd comic of ti. lol
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
ti
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 161d
is my keyboard dyslexia significant somehow? lol
entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf · 10 pts · 161d
The 3 days it takes me to unfuck 2AM work should teach me a lesson.
But it dornt
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 161d
dornt
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 161d
Is that the He-man castle from the 80s?
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 161d
Fisher price great adventures castle toy from the 90s
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 161d
I loved that castle. I think the remains of it lie in my parents attic to this day.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 161d
Every child care center and baby sitter near me eventually had one or two of these.
I'm not sure I ever encountered one with the actual figures though. You were lucky if the canon ball was still with it.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 161d
The game for this bad boy went hard
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 161d
Wait you guys are still writing your own code?
ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 160d
I'm not even reading it anymore...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 161d
i'm still copy and pasting code okay?