I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
&gt;  If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel [...] And if you tell me that you haven’t had this feeling ever, then you’re lying. Tell me about higher goals, training rookies and all that — I know you’re simply too full of themselves. And if you try to tell me that you learned to defeat that feeling (however it manifests in you), then I must be a pink unicorn.<p>I really can&#x27;t relate at all. I feel the opposite. I often feel angry (I realize this is not a GOOD response either!) and always feel sad. I don&#x27;t want to have to do more work. I don&#x27;t want a reminder that my previous feedback didn&#x27;t click with them.<p>I&#x27;m constantly looking for ways to do less tedious work, through automation and such, and code review for bad code is the worst sort of tedious work. I want to learn things, but code reviewing bad code doesn&#x27;t teach me anything - I want to work with people who can teach me things when <i>they</i> review <i>my</i> code just as often as the reverse.<p>My takeaway from that has been to try to intercept people <i>earlier</i> in the planning and designing and start-of-coding process. If a bunch of bad code gets to code review, someone failed at explaining what this thing needed to do and how it should be done beforehand. The article claims this is always just itself a confrontational form of argument, but... it doesn&#x27;t have to be. Stop being an asshole, and find non-assholes to work with.