I'm not talking about "artisan code". I'm talking about having pride in your work. I'm talking about being an engineer. You don't have to love your craft to make things have some quality. It helps, but it isn't necessary.
But I disagree. I don't think you see these strong correlations between compensation and competency. We use dumb metrics like leet code, jira tickets filled, and lines of code written. It's hard to measure how many jira tickets someone's code results in. It's hard to determine if it is because they wrote shit code or because they wrote a feature that is now getting a lot of attention. But we often know the answer intuitively.
There's so much low hanging fruit out there. We were dissing YouTube yesterday right?
Why is my home page 2 videos taking up 70% of the row, then 5 shorts, 2 videos taking 60% of the row, 5 shorts, and then 3 videos taking the whole row? All those videos are aligned! Then I refresh the page and it is 2 rows of 3.
I search a video and I get 3 somewhat related videos and then just a list of unrelated stuff. WHY?!
Why is it that when you have captions on that these will display directly on top of captions (or other text) that are embedded into the video? You tell me you can autogenerate captions but can't auto-detect them? This is super clear if you watch any shorts.
Speaking of shorts do we have to display comments on top of the video? Why are we filling so much of the screen real estate with stuff that people don't care about and cover the actual content? If you're going to do that at least shrink the video or add an alpha channel.
I'm not convinced because I see so much shit. Maybe you're right and that the "artisans" are paid more, but putting a diamond in a landfill doesn't make it any less of a dump. I certainly think "the masses" get in the way of "the artisans".
The job of an engineer is to be a little grumpy. The job of an engineer is to identify problems and to fix them. The "grumpyness" is just direction and motivation.
Edit:
It may be worth disclosing that you're the CEO of an AI code review bot. It doesn't invalidate your comment but you certainly have a horse in the race. A horse that benefits from low quality code becoming more prolific.
But I disagree. I don't think you see these strong correlations between compensation and competency. We use dumb metrics like leet code, jira tickets filled, and lines of code written. It's hard to measure how many jira tickets someone's code results in. It's hard to determine if it is because they wrote shit code or because they wrote a feature that is now getting a lot of attention. But we often know the answer intuitively.
There's so much low hanging fruit out there. We were dissing YouTube yesterday right?
Why is my home page 2 videos taking up 70% of the row, then 5 shorts, 2 videos taking 60% of the row, 5 shorts, and then 3 videos taking the whole row? All those videos are aligned! Then I refresh the page and it is 2 rows of 3.
I search a video and I get 3 somewhat related videos and then just a list of unrelated stuff. WHY?!
Why is it that when you have captions on that these will display directly on top of captions (or other text) that are embedded into the video? You tell me you can autogenerate captions but can't auto-detect them? This is super clear if you watch any shorts.
Speaking of shorts do we have to display comments on top of the video? Why are we filling so much of the screen real estate with stuff that people don't care about and cover the actual content? If you're going to do that at least shrink the video or add an alpha channel.
I'm not convinced because I see so much shit. Maybe you're right and that the "artisans" are paid more, but putting a diamond in a landfill doesn't make it any less of a dump. I certainly think "the masses" get in the way of "the artisans".
The job of an engineer is to be a little grumpy. The job of an engineer is to identify problems and to fix them. The "grumpyness" is just direction and motivation.
Edit:
It may be worth disclosing that you're the CEO of an AI code review bot. It doesn't invalidate your comment but you certainly have a horse in the race. A horse that benefits from low quality code becoming more prolific.