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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 weeks ago

Me, working on my personal hobby project, trying to integrate two totally unfamiliar platforms, in a programming language I've never used before.

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 41 points 2 weeks ago

I had a job interview a few weeks ago where the lead developer straight-up said that he doesn't have any tests in the codebase because "it's just writing your code twice". I thought he was joking. Unfortunately he was not.

I didn't end up getting the job, perhaps because I made it clear that I thought he was very wrong. I think I dodged a bullet.

[-] CptBread@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I mean there is arguments against creating test for everything but that definitely isn't a good one...

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

If you just get LLMs to write your code then you can write your code zero times

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I bet you could no show at that job for 6 months before they fired you. It's free money.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did that once. Went to a completely dysfunctional company. Project management was non existent. There was no planing, no defined goals. The project manager, that never before managed a project, literally told me "I think everybody know what has to be done" when I asked for a first assignment.

I though - well I'll just hang out there and get paid, but alas there was 2 hours of meetings, shouting, everybody blaming everybody else, non stop phone calls etc. every day. Home office got cancelled because "you developers aren't productive". If you do nothing (because nobody told you to do anything) you get shouted at, if you do what they tell you to do ("just make a website, it can't be that hard, we need to be at the top of the google search results" - "what should i put on the website?" - "we don't know, but make sure it's at the top") they look at the result and blame you because it isn't what they had in mind when they asked.

Wasn't free money, had to take a long break for mental health afterwards.

Years later, I still look up their project sometimes. The website is the same as when I left.

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

But is it at the top of google search results?

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, if you enter the url into google search.

[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I once had a startup founder tell me that "tests are a lack of confidence." I later did a security review against their company as part of an acquisition. It did not go well....

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

so they're... still hiring???

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Can you stop accurately describing me?

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

[ in walks fully-released-bug-driven developer ]

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

Vulnerability driven developer

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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