The whole &quot;we are so cool because we are <i>ruthless</i>. <i>Merciless</i>, I tell you! Once you get through our code review your code will be perfect.&quot; attitude of this article is a bit surprising for one ranked so highly on HN. Do people really prefer this kind of attitude? Bender GIFs and snarky comments can become quickly tiring.<p>I personally would strongly prefer if they put it in milder technical terms, &quot;We are very conservative with deviations from our preferred code style and conventions&quot;. I suppose that wouldn&#x27;t be as click-baity, but for me (and I suspect a lot of other people) it would be easier to appreciate, since we understand that being conservative before accepting commits leads to a well-groomed codebase.