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- https://recursion.slack.com/archives/D03LD0P3J11/p1668615491319809
- Applies to code reviews as well
- App.js refactor PR
- Had long, loooooooong PR discussions in English and couldn’t align
- Another reviewer made a small code suggestion (in code) and we all immediately agreed
- Show, don’t tell
- Discuss code in code, not English whenever possible
- The English discussion opened up a broader tangent about coding “rules” and other dogma that was a lot to articulate and understand
- A quick draft PR showing a two-file code change suggestion required no English and made perfect sense and skipped all the “should”ing and debatable philosophy stuff