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I almost killed my startup before it even launched.

I started building my tech startup 18 months ago. As a non technical founder, I hired a web dev from Pakistan to help build my idea. He was doing good work but I got impatient and wanted to move faster.

I made a HUGE mistake. I put my reliable developer on pause and hired an agency that promised better results. They seemed professional at first but I soon realized I was just one of many clients. My project wasn't a priority for them.

After wasting so much time and money, I went back to my original Pakistani developer. He thankfully accepted the job again and is now doing amazing work, and we're finally...

Whats up!

Been a software engineer for over 4 years now. And yesterday I finally experienced the level of enlightenment we all aspire to.

I got a code review request from a fellow senior engineer, it was about 15 files and 300 lines. I finsished the review in about 5 minutes, and requested changes.

Fellow engineer says there's no way you finished the review THAT fast. You haven't even pulled it down and ran it on your local !

I said "I didnt need to pull it down. And as I noted in the review this is not going to work for x,y,z reasons and also these 2 edges cases are uncovered blah blah"

Fellow engineer comes back 20 minutes later, and said "wow how did y..."