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davey48016last Thursday at 3:36 PM5 repliesview on HN

A friend of mine has a junior engineer who does this and then responds to questions like "Why did you do X?" with "I didn't, Claude did, I don't know why".


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tossandthrowlast Thursday at 3:54 PM

That would be an immidiate reason of termination in my book.

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Ekaroslast Thursday at 5:03 PM

I think words that would follow from me would get me send to HR...

And if it was repeated... Well I would probably get fired...

gardenhedgelast Thursday at 9:18 PM

Some other comments suggest immediately firing.. but a junior engineer needs to be mentored. It should be explained to them clearly that they need to understand the changes they have made. They should also be pointed towards the coding standards and SDLC documentation. If they refuse to change their ways, then firing makes sense.

jennyholzer2last Thursday at 3:43 PM

no hate but i would try to fire someone for saying that

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insinlast Thursday at 5:50 PM

See also "Why did you do X?" → Flurry of new commits → Conversation marked as resolved

And not just from juniors