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Discussion on: The Incompetent Developer - Do you know one?

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kurisutofu

I agree.

Case in point, I knew of a PHD specialized in A.I who had to finalize a website I almost finished before I was sent to another client.
I know A.I. and website building may require different mindsets but when I was called back on the project to check why suddenly everything was broken, I checked and talked to the guy.

It became apparent that he had:

  • Tested new features he wanted to implement (before he even started on the required ones) directly on the prod site
  • Renamed all the variables so it's easier to read. So he renamed them something like a, aa, aaa, aaa etc ... until he reached a limit of character or something where then he went to b, bb, bbb, bbbb etc ...