Junior Vs Senior Devs: The Evolution Of Code Critique

Junior devs live in a fantasy world where they either think they're writing perfect code or have emotional meltdowns when criticized. Meanwhile, senior devs have reached coding nirvana – the beautiful state where you can both tell someone their code is absolute garbage and accept when yours is too. Nothing says "I've been in this industry for a decade" quite like the calm acceptance that everything we build is just varying degrees of terrible.