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Comment by berkes

6 hours ago

I once tutored an intern. Who thought he was The Best Programmer On Earth (didn't we all at that age?). He refused to use revision control, it slowed him down.

So we told him to commit at least once every day, with a relevant commit message, or else fail his internship.

He worked 21 more days. There were 21 commits: "17:00, time to go home".

This reads like the intern was left to his own devices and his output not checked at all for three weeks straight. Actual tutoring would have surfaced the issue after 1 or 2 days tops.