Or You Can But No One Will Believe You

Code review Refactoring Senior developer Git blame Power dynamics Office politics Code ownership Developer hierarchy Tech workplace Code style

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Or You Can But No One Will Believe You

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That moment when you watch helplessly as a senior dev rewrites your perfectly functional code with their "improved version" that does the exact same thing but with different variable names and their preferred syntax. The code still passes all the tests, the functionality is identical, but now it has their fingerprints all over it. Classic power move in the dev hierarchy! Your git blame history is forever altered, and your contributions slowly fade into oblivion. It's like they're marking their territory with semicolons and brackets.

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