Monday, August 3, 2009

Review comments and turning off the brain

I'd like to say +1 to this post on 37signals about the pitfalls of working in a zero-brains, "follow the review comments" mode while incorporating comments about your design or code. I have fallen into this trap myself and have often realized later that I could've come up with a much better fix or revision of my design/code if I didn't just follow every comment of the reviewer to the T.