r/ProgrammerHumor 23h ago

Meme softwareEngineeringIsDead

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u/JackNotOLantern 21h ago

Request changes: split into smaller PRs, below 10k lines each

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u/Noname_1111 18h ago

below 1k lines if anything

I'm not reviewing anything that has more than 5 digits unless its a full refactor

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u/JackNotOLantern 17h ago edited 2h ago

10k is doable for me. But more is nonsense. The only exception would be adding non-code text files, like md or test input files.

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u/tiajuanat 44m ago

Even a full refactor. I've done a lot of major refactors myself and overseen even larger ones.

In retrospect they've never needed to be done all at once, and were only done all at once because of someone's ego (admittedly sometimes mine)