> I ask questions to confirm things
Oh my.
As someone who reads the code, I can tell you, asking questions to confirm things is inadequate. The models lie to me, daily.
Every day I have two experiences:
1. I’m blown away by what it can do
2. I say, ”wait, you said this, but the code shows that, so you were just going to leave that endpoint without requiring any authentication??” and I get the “you’re absolutely right, that was my mistake, and you’re right to call it out” song and dance. Daily.
It also adds all kinds of bloat to code, tests, and “documentation”. I’d say I spend ~30% of my dev time picking lines of code or documentation and asking, “why does this exist?” and “what would break if we deleted this line?” and then arguing with it and removing things.