this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
708 points (96.9% liked)

Programmer Humor

19331 readers
379 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
708
Merge then review (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Move fast and break things.
Merge vulnerabilities.
Double the work.
Merge code without tests.
Anything, but don't let code become stale.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] pomodoro_longbreak 12 points 11 months ago

Peer reviews can catch bugs that tests can't catch.

I won't disagree that peer reviews are overrated, but they're a great way to train and onboard less experienced devs (who are just more fun to work with, anyway). Like I'm a platform dev, so I don't have a "home" project - if I had to know every project before I opened a PR for it, I'd get hardly any work done. Review help other knowledge experts weigh in on my changes.

Anyway, one case for being pro