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[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 89 points 5 months ago

I honestly needed to hear this today, so thank you. I'm at work trying to work out someone else's uncommented code and have just been staring at it mumbling to myself. I'm new to the position so I'm anxious my new coworkers will think I'm just dicking around... This is the validation I needed. Thanks everyone!

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 70 points 5 months ago

Say out loud to yourself, "What the hell is this?" or, "Why did they do it this way?" once in a while. Everyone around will think you know exactly what you're doing.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 92 points 5 months ago

@Yondoza@sh.itjust.works this is good advice

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 18 points 5 months ago

I can hear the vocal inflections in this comic.

[-] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

exactly. like a former boss of mine said: if they are complaining, they are working!

[-] ElCanut@jlai.lu 8 points 5 months ago

From what I learned in my workplace, it seems that for most people the best way to appear competent is to continuously criticize the work of your colleagues

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't know your circumstances, but it is usually OK to just ask. Especially if the original author is around. Don't do it all the time and you'll be OK. Even can come with positive image out of it, if you ask the right questions.

Other than that, I found that the current llms like ChatGPT (and perhaps Claude) are very good at explaining code, most of the time, for some languages ;)

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Hey, thanks for your concern. I'm asking tons of questions, don't worry. Unfortunately the last 3 keepers of this code are no longer around to ask, thus the staring at code.