This advice is soo very wrong. As a programmer you need to think first. The code you write is gonna affect your life maintaining it. So it does affect you or some other developer maintaining it. By actually caring you make things easier for you and your peers and that helps you grow your career.
Whenever someone writes a comment like GP's, it's safe to assume they are not involved in long term maintenance of a system. Or they're like my current team, reveling in the paid OT their shoddy work lets them justify (which is now unpaid for them, but paid for me, watch your contract terms people!).
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This advice is soo very wrong. As a programmer you need to think first. The code you write is gonna affect your life maintaining it. So it does affect you or some other developer maintaining it. By actually caring you make things easier for you and your peers and that helps you grow your career.
Whenever someone writes a comment like GP's, it's safe to assume they are not involved in long term maintenance of a system. Or they're like my current team, reveling in the paid OT their shoddy work lets them justify (which is now unpaid for them, but paid for me, watch your contract terms people!).