What a terrible article! Writing code is not about good vs. bad, incompetent vs. incompetent, great vs. garbage. It's about communication between people.
The best programmers I've known are never happy with their work. We ALL write terrible code! Anyone who says different is lying.
Good coders are those who welcome critique, who push themselves through self-set goals and challenges. My fav quote from Dan Kubb is "if I'm not embarrassed by code I wrote 6 months ago, I'm not pushing myself hard enough".
And then some day you'll have to visit a psychotherapist. Not being happy is destructive, being happy and greedy in your happiness is not. Attain a level of expertise where you can reliably predict task durations and then go lead a team to teach every team member the same. Then be a CTO. Then the world will be a calm, happy and steadily progressing place.
Totally agree! I hate questions asking about your "great" achievements, code that you're "proud of"...
We're not proud... It's always possible to reiterate the code your wrote and make it better (and again, and again) - but the question is: is this the most priority for today?
The best programmers I've known are never happy with their work. We ALL write terrible code! Anyone who says different is lying.
Good coders are those who welcome critique, who push themselves through self-set goals and challenges. My fav quote from Dan Kubb is "if I'm not embarrassed by code I wrote 6 months ago, I'm not pushing myself hard enough".