I'm not actually a developer. I'm a tester.
I feel like I'm increasingly stuck in lots of different roles that I'm not actually specialized in, but software development is increasingly full stack or vibing, and nothing in between.
Chaos.
Discussion
Embrace the chaos 😂
Have a spec review. Everyone jump in and rewrite.
Have a code PR. Everyone push changes.
Testing phase. Everyone hack at everything.
😂
Extreme extreme programming.
It’s the case everywhere
Even with hard tech companies where there’s much less room for error, it feels like it’s a big scale FYP made by students who don’t know what to do.
As long as it works minimally, all is well.
Well, I do have to say that the release process is really fast because everyone knows everything about everything. I used to have to explain why we shouldn't release something, and get put on the spot, but now I just show up and everyone is like, Yeah, let's just not.
Now that’s great because many teams just don’t reach that point. They remain barely floating in a sea of chaos.
It's gotten like that with GitCitadel, too. Used to just read through the code and leave comments and now I'm like, "Hmmm... leave a comment or just fix it and move on with my life? 🤔" *commit*
Every PR merges bigger than it launched. 😂
I was thinking that I could write a little acceptance test in my next PR description, so that everyone can pull it and know how to find the changes. Alex has gotten so big, already, that I'm sometimes like, okay, looked at the code, but what do I have to do to see this? 😂
#ragecoding
windsurf...
Was thinking about this earlier. Testers very often won’t have the skills to test everything that they may need to. Just an observation very relevant to my current situation.
Yeah, nowadays we are actually sometimes better programmers than the developers, as we have to build all of the tooling and ORMs and stuff, and then all of the automation and test system administration, and the mocking and etc.
I see it on GitCitadel, where I have to build things into Sybil, to later test Alexandria. It's like we're the pre/post programmers, for every release.
It's always a real pleasure, to finally get to just click though a script, for an hour or two. Meditative.