Ugly code can mean lots of things: code someone else wrote, code with inconsistent white space placement, code that takes up too many lines, code that requires too many command + clicks to parse, code that looks redundant. I was struggling with the last of these recently. To me, some code a colleague wrote looked redundant. And vice versa, they thought code I wrote was unnecessarily duplicated. They’d built an API client for our new (weeks-old) test automation suite. It had everything the A...| Elizabeth Zagroba: Organizational Anarchist
I work on a team that has enabled an AI code review tool. And so far, I am unimpressed. Every single time, the code review comments the AI bot leaves on my pull requests are not just wrong, but laughably wrong. When its suggestions are not completely fucking incorrect, they make no sense at all.| Jesse Squires