• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      At this moment, I am staring at a 200-line block of postgresql that has about 40 JOIN clauses. It is not trivially or realistically debugable, testable, or extensible by anyone, including the people who wrote it (and no, I didn’t write this shitshow). There are basically zero nuanced tests around it, despite the fact that that’s a banner I’ve carried in a pretty militant fashion since starting at this place about 2.5 years ago, meaning that I trust this baroque confluence of relational db logic about as far as I can throw my car. It was done this way because “we’ll have time to go back and optimize it later (oh, sweet summer child)”.

      I’m slowly going insane.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      How bad could it be?

      Well, as long as it is well documented…I’m sure it will be fine. (as I am not that one that will have to maintain it)

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        That’s why everyone switches jobs every few years.

        Sure, the increased pay is nice, but the real benefit is not having to deal with the catastrophically awful code that you’re forced to write because product wants to ship this 3 months ago and you haven’t been given enough time to design and implement the system in a way that actually makes sense.