Ask HN: Is it sloppy coding culture or just me/ADHD?
I feel super unproductive at work. Looking back at my career I've hit peak productivity when I could manage a codebase, the culture around the codebase, and external visibility. But the culture of my current group is: heroic hacking. Other team members seem able to work in this environment but I feel paralyzed in this atmosphere of slapdash jupyter notebooks, untested undocumented sprawling ML models, and not an interface in sight. When I suggest we find consensus on an architecture or coding practices or even commit conventions, I get blank faces that seem to ask "what are you talking about". I feel gaslighted about tech debt.
One view is: this is just n00b startup engineering.
Another view: maybe my old engineering practices are a crutch? Have I relied on thoughtful design, thorough tests, version control policies, documentation, static analysis... because I have untreated ADHD or sth and can only focus on one modular chunk of code at a time? Is adderall eating engineering practices? How do these other engineers get anything done?
One view is: this is just n00b startup engineering.
Another view: maybe my old engineering practices are a crutch? Have I relied on thoughtful design, thorough tests, version control policies, documentation, static analysis... because I have untreated ADHD or sth and can only focus on one modular chunk of code at a time? Is adderall eating engineering practices? How do these other engineers get anything done?
Do I need pills or a new position?