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Please stop the coding challenges

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261 points CrazyEmi | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 15:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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robosycho ◴[15 Nov 24 16:13 UTC] No.42148211[source]▶
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

Yesterday! Working on a large project means there’s always some issue with a dark corner no one has looked at recently and because there’s no team to support, I get to go and bug hunt.

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1. hindsightbias ◴[15 Nov 24 16:40 UTC] No.42148493[source]▶
Many of us grew up when that was the norm, n00bs weren't given features. Coding jobs were like apprenticeships. You were mentored and free to explore. You learned what did and didn't work and how to leave the codebase a better, more maintainable place.

Today, privilege means starting from no real job experience to writing enshitified_prod_tokenizer() and laughing at the poor sap having to fix it in a few years.