My name is attached to the PR, and I’m getting called at night when shit breaks. That, and I joined this whole endeavour because I actually quite like the code, and I’m actually curious to see it no matter who or what wrote it. So I’m gonna review it.
Admittedly, if I’m building a toy that I am the only user of, and don’t want to invest time into, I’ll ask a clanker to do it by itself. And I certainly won’t put my pristine, delicate little hands into the Rube Goldberg-esque pile of confusion that results of the cursed dreams that are what it thought I was asking for.
I get a lot of pride from the quality of my engineering[^5], what’s commonly called “my craft”. It’s part of my identity. Finding a solution that balances simplicity, reliability, security, cost, performance, maintainability, etc. I hate it when I break shit in prod. It’s a personal failure, I feel shame, it’s like a dirty spot on my reputation. I hate it when I ship shit, stuff that doesn’t work. And I hate it when someone else’s stuff breaks, and my big ugly face is attached to their PR with a dumb “👍 LGTM” next to it. When someone gets woken up because I fucked up some piece of software, I lose sleep myself. That’s the worst feeling.
