Comment by forty
6 days ago
Why would anyone rather read and fix someone else code rather than writing the code themselves? I do a lot of code review for other human code and it use so much more energy than writing my own code (and surely, as I have competent colleagues, this is not even as bad as if I expected that the code that I'm reading could be totally random shit)
> Why would anyone rather read and fix someone else code rather than writing the code themselves?
Because their own review standards are low (so they find reviewing "easy"), and/or because they can't appreciate the emotional & mental fulfillment that coding provides.