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The more experienced I get, the more doubtful I am about every code. In the end I will be an ermit on a mountain imagining a code base that does not evolve into a monstrous mess.

Honestly, I envy the young Mavericks who code shit and get work done. They at least sleep at night.

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> Honestly, I envy the young Mavericks who code shit and get work done. They at least sleep at night.

Ignoring the burden shifting of on call rotations, I often find the young mavericks don't sleep at night -- they're fire fighting and debugging their work.

As a freelancer, I am usually hired 3 months before the delivery of the product to help them firefighting. In the end, juniore don't deal with the real issues in their code. We, senior developpers, do.

Note: after a stroke of lucidity, I stopped accepting those kind of missions.

On the contrary. Who are young still work through the night. If work keeps you up it means that you can’t make trade-offs quite well enough.

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