https://wjmaritz.dev/tags/mentoring/Recent content in Mentoring on Wilhelm MaritzHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/twelve-things-one-fix/Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/twelve-things-one-fix/<p>I spent a morning reviewing a low-code automation someone else had built. It worked. Forms came in, notifications went out, the right people got alerted. By the end of the review I had twelve things written down that were wrong with it, and the most useful thing I did that day was not hand over the list of twelve.</p> <h2 id="working-and-maintainable-are-different-properties">Working and maintainable are different properties</h2> <p>The flow did what it was asked to do, every time. That is not nothing, and it is worth saying out loud before anything else, because a review that opens with a defect list teaches the author that shipping working software counts for nothing.</p>