Big companies do this all the time. Giant monorepos with good testing and reliability systems manage it. As an example: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch22.html

It’s very rare in the industry for you to start something and have the flexibility to pick the language. You’re much more likely to be working on an existing system or expected to work with whatever the company uses.

That said, there’s plenty of opportunity to make your own decisions. Having to follow arbitrary style rules is hardly a consideration (actually you’ll find it’s hard enough just to have consistent arbitrary rules within a company).

There may also be opportunities for you to change these rules, but it’s also wise to pick your battles.

If only they had Space OSHA.

Yeah Star Trek is so silly about manual tasks. You’d think they’d have Phaser Roombas (Phoombas). Like it’s either get a crew member to do it or you end up with an evil AI and barely any in between.

Maybe it’s the worst job because it’s really boring. You just go “Computer, run holodeck cleaning” and wait for it to finish?

Can’t you get it to clean itself?

I’m mostly talking about when you need to use JSDoc format which are usually for interfaces, so it’s usually just a chore for humans.

Probably harder to get good comments inside code, but it might still be possible.

Why wouldn’t it be able to? It can link similar code structure to data in its training set. Maybe the ones that aren’t at that level but it’s hardly a stretch to make these inferences. Most of the code you write is hardly novel.

To my knowledge that just formats existing comments. With LLMs you could probably do 95% of the actual commenting.

Your code should generally be self documenting: Have variable and method names that make sense.

Use comments when you need to explain something that might not be obvious to someone reading the code.

Also have documentation for your APIs: The interfaces between your components.

I always thought engineering is cool but time consuming. Programming was picked up along the way and now the money is too good to do anything else. Wish I could work on devices again.

Isn’t this due to the warp field? They ummm, have less warp drag?

Camera.

Interesting. I wonder if there are videos that increase the chance of creating infinite automata?

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