When Junior Developers Teach Me the Most
Wasn’t even a code review, just a regular sync. He was maybe six months in, fresh out of a bootcamp, still a little nervous when talking. But he looked at the logic I had written and asked, “Why do we do it this way?” And I froze. Because I didn’t have an answer I liked. The truth was, I didn’t remember. It had always been done that way. I had absorbed it, carried it forward, optimized around it. But I had stopped asking why. ...