I have heard things from another apprentice who just does not use version control at all and the only copies are on his laptop and on his desktop. He is also using node.js with only 1 class and doesn't know about OOP (not sure if you even use that in js no clue 😅) and has one big file with 20k lines of code I have absolutely no clue how he navigates through it

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I know the type. Usually the kind of confident know-it-all who refuses to learn anything but delivers changes really quickly so management loves them. I had the misfortune to fix such a project after that 'rock-star' programmer left the company. Unfortunately the lack of professional standards in our industry allows people like that to continuously fail upwards. When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

My company for the longest time had two engineers they would give all the new projects to. They would rush through some prototype code as fast as they could then management would bring in a new team to take the project over. The code was always garbage and crammed into one place. I kept getting new projects and instead of starting from a nice clean slate we always had to build on that garbage. It sucked so bad.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago

When I left the project they rehired them and let them design the v2 of the project we just fixed.

Lol. Wow.

And that is why I've been unable to work myself out of a job in all my long years as a developer.

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Jesus, reminds me of a similar story. My gf once lost a job to someone who literally just pasted code into LLMs, also delivering quickly, even tho it was hot garbage. Anyhow, she spent a lot of her time fixing his shit and so her output went down. I hope that company burns to the ground with completely un manageable software.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

We really need some kind of board like the one that controls the title for engineers.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Those are rookie numbers. I have at least a 35k one somewhere. More than one actually.

People run their businesses on this.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I once landed a job at a small company doing a software for medical analysis labs all over the country. Software had been around for over ten years at this point. They had no source control. Nothing. Absolute nightmare.
They were literally starting to use source control when I arrived.
In 2015.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

The "source control" when I first started was all the code on a shared drive, to check out a file you copied it to your machine, and renamed the extension on the shared drive to your initials.

When somebody edited without doing this there would be full blown meltdowns over lost work.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Reading this just give me a panic attack

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

He just heard monoliths were in again

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ey! Reminds me of my middle-school years! I still can't belive I made an entire game without a single class... Just storing info in arrays and writing in comments what location represents what data. But I was a literal child, too young to read guides or sit through "long" tutorials.

I don't want to sound too mean, but whenever I see anything similar at work, I wish that person get a job they're actually good at. It's fine and all that the company started hiring actual programmers to fix things, but the fact that the old crew still fucks shit up with senior privileges is a major grievance.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

The person didn’t have any git repository; probably a new programmer that didn’t know how version control works and just clicked discard without understanding what that means in this situation