Which is why making code readable is so very important. Our juniors and students will think we're ridiculous, when we spend a long time cleaning up some code or choosing the least misunderstandable name for a type. But you fuck that up and then others, as well as your future self, will be wasting many more minutes misunderstanding what your code does.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

Readable code is especially important when companies lay people off every six months so you constantly lose expertise

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I treat my future self a few months from now as a separate person who does not remember anything about why or what the specific code fragments do. And I'm grateful to my past self for doing the same.

Plus, you never know when you need to actually delegate supporting a particular piece of a solution to another person.

[–] homoludens@feddit.org 6 points 8 hours ago

Write your code as if the next person that works with it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.