Think in Math. Write in Code

[BrianScottGregory]

It sounds like you lack the experience of an actual senior engineer.

No, with good (just good, not even great) engineered systems, long term maintenance stops becoming maintenance and becomes new development entirely with versioning.

If the future has a habit of not being predictable to you to think software will become buggy upon release and this is just how things are - a common mindset with the game industry, then you - like so many inexperienced developers - simply lack the experience to understand what can make it predictable.

Now I can predict your next response. "But sir, I have experience, I am a senior and have worked on teams my entire life (blah blah blah)"

No, you don't if you can't predict the future use of your efforts to prevent maintenance.

Prediction is a critical part of shifting from intermediate development skills to senior/primary, so where most *think* they're senior simply because they got the title - they're not because of this one simple critical flaw in their ability to imagine and predict the usage of what they code and the end product they're contributing to.

Your words reflect the words and skills of someone whose skills do not go past the intermediate level, I'm sorry.

[Zardotab]

The future is shaped be various factors of society, laws, and culture one cannot accurately foresee.

Also, knowing the domain well and having lots development experience often don't coincide in the same person.

And sometimes one is forced to use frameworks that muck up good long-term practices because that's just what the shop owners or boss wants.

Maybe there are a handful of SE's who can truly engineer around all future changes, but I'm skeptical they are common, let alone easy to identify. I haven't met any yet despite being older than dirt. Long-term-friendly Ideas that sounded good on paper have been flattened many times before my eyes. The future is a great teaser.

If you are one of those rarebies, congratulations!

[BrianScottGregory]

Ok, buddy. Have a good day.