Hermit, yeah. I do a lot of collaborative work with testers, but my coding has been mostly alone. I have not been a production programmer for 35 years, and even then I worked almost alone.
I'm not junior in the sense that I have made my living as a consulting software tester for decades. I code usually to prototype things to demonstrate and teach about testing. My clients then pick them up and implement them as they wish.
For true prototyping, code quality is not very important, because my client doesn't want my code-- they want to see a possible solution.
Whenever I AM doing something with other guys, as has happened a lot more since the pandemic started, I try to adopt a more cosmopolitan practice.
I'm not junior in the sense that I have made my living as a consulting software tester for decades. I code usually to prototype things to demonstrate and teach about testing. My clients then pick them up and implement them as they wish.
For true prototyping, code quality is not very important, because my client doesn't want my code-- they want to see a possible solution.
Whenever I AM doing something with other guys, as has happened a lot more since the pandemic started, I try to adopt a more cosmopolitan practice.