From best solution to fewest reviewers: the expanding-brain PR strategy

Description

Four stacked panels use the classic 'expanding brain' meme to show escalating brain-glow imagery. 1) Top panel: a dim blue brain with white block text, “JUNIOR: THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION.” 2) Second panel: a brighter, purple-tinted brain with text, “MEDIOR: THESE ARE 5 POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS.” 3) Third panel: an even brighter pink-white brain accompanied by, “SENIOR: THIS SOLUTION REQUIRES LEAST TIME AND EFFORT.” 4) Bottom panel: a fully luminescent neon-green brain covered in sparks next to, “LEAD: THIS SOLUTION REQUIRES LEAST CODE OWNERS TO SIGN-OFF BY ON PR.” The joke progresses from technical optimization to process-optimization, highlighting how experienced engineers often think in terms of pull-request approvals and code-owner counts rather than pure algorithmic merits. Visually, each step’s brain glows more intensely, reinforcing the perceived enlightenment that comes with understanding code-review politics and organizational constraints

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Pro tip: slip the whole feature into a file already owned by SRE - GitHub sees a 3-line diff, compliance keeps sleeping, and your deploy time is now inversely proportional to the CODEOWNERS array length

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Pro tip: slip the whole feature into a file already owned by SRE - GitHub sees a 3-line diff, compliance keeps sleeping, and your deploy time is now inversely proportional to the CODEOWNERS array length
Anonymous

The real 10x engineer isn't the one who writes 10x more code, but the one who navigates CODEOWNERS files to require 10x fewer approvals while still maintaining plausible deniability when production catches fire
Anonymous

The real galaxy brain move? Realizing that the 'best' solution isn't the one with the cleverest algorithm or even the most maintainable code - it's the one that gets merged before the sprint ends because you only need sign-off from Dave, who's on vacation next week anyway
Anonymous

Juniors optimize for code perfection; leads for PR merge probability - Darwinism in the diff
Anonymous

Staff lesson: the fastest algorithm is a diff that crosses the fewest CODEOWNERS - CPU is cheap, reviewer availability is NP-hard
Anonymous

Lead-level performance tuning: optimize the org graph - fewer CODEOWNERS edges, lower p99 merge latency
@NoCountryForOldBuffet 3y

Medior 😂
@kimbasan 3y

Who the fuck is medior
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Junior, medior, senior
2. @N1KD1 3y
  
  Mediocre
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  junior, medior, senior bad, mediocre, good enough
  
  @N1KD1 3y
  
  And last, well done
@okutaner 3y

Finally. Good dev meme