“You idiot” I cannot imagine a better way to tank morale and boost turnover. Much better would be: “Why did you take this approach? what problem(s) does it solve? How does this class/trait/field/variable serve that purpose?”
a friend of mine we had the rubber duck signal, every time we had a bug, made the other loot at our code, many times we found the bug ourselves, but having him ask, what does this do? helped a lot, and merge conflicts were a lot easier to solve, luckily our computers were side by side, now it seems similar to the coding buddy, i have to do this again.
I guess I’m taking your kiss off my list, then.
What if I have no coding buddy? Nobody. And the rubber duck is far from being a substitute.
Now I know I should probably find one, I hope I’ll be able to! 