The Rookie Mistakes That Even Senior Programmers Make (And Don't Even Know It)
You know that feeling when you’re reviewing a junior developer’s code and you spot an obvious mistake from a mile away? That smug satisfaction of “ah, classic rookie error”? Well, buckle up, because I’m about to serve you a slice of humble pie. After years of code reviews, debugging sessions, and late-night production incidents, I’ve realized something unsettling: we senior developers are making rookie mistakes all the time. We’re just better at hiding them, even from ourselves. ...