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Comment by sensanaty

2 days ago

As the fullstacker with a roughly 65/35 split BE/FE on the team who has to review this kinda stuff on the daily, there's nothing I dread more than a backender writing FE tickets and vice versa.

Just last week I had to review some monstrosity of a FE ticket written by one of our backenders, with the comment of "it's 90% there, should be good to takeover". I had to throw out pretty much everything and rewrite it from scratch. My solution was like 150 lines modified, whereas the monstrous output of the AI was non-functional, ugly, a performance nightmare and around 800 lines, with extremely unhelpful and generic commit messages to the tune of "Made things great!!1!1!!".

I can't even really blame them, the C-level craze and zeal for the AI shit is such that if you're not doing crap like this you get scrutinized and PIP'd.

At least frontenders usually have some humility and will tell you they have no clue if it's a good solution or not, while BEnders are always for some reason extremely dismissive of FE work (as can be seen in this very thread). It's truly baffling to me