<div dir="ltr">> Or maybe experience makes you more cautious, more risk-averse, improves your ability to spot problems early, …?<br><div><br></div><div>Don't disagree with any of that.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, more experience may make you more tolerant of the work of others, accepting of the fact that work was done under constraints one may be unaware of and less likely to label something as 'bad'.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In any case, all I was really suggesting is that I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion from this data that more experience == more likely to judge a codebase as bad, if you're also concluding that being labelled as a senior engineer does not necessarily equate to being experienced.</div><div><br></div><div>R</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Tom Stuart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@codon.com" target="_blank">tom@codon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 13 Sep 2016, at 16:47, Roland Swingler <<a href="mailto:roland.swingler@gmail.com">roland.swingler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> the more experienced you get, the more likely you are to hate the codebase you have to work on.<br>
</span><span class="">> It may be the case that the more senior *you think you are*, the more harshly you will judge a codebase. It may be uncorrelated with actual experience...<br>
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</span>Or maybe experience makes you more cautious, more risk-averse, improves your ability to spot problems early, …?<br>
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