As I tweaked some last bits of code and added a few comments here and there, I realized I was getting excited. This project I had been working on for the last few days was almost done. I was happy about the code I had written and started prepping for a code review. My co-workers had been asking how it’s going and wanted to give me feedback, so I pushed and deployed my changes to a staging server.

What immediately followed was a humbling experience. “What is this?”, “Why did we decide to do it this way?”, “Won’t this interfere with the rest of the product?”, “How about if we do X instead?”, “Arnor, what the hell have you been building?”