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Maybe yes, when you work at bank, change 1 line of code per month, documenting this change in 10 Word documents, most of time drinking coffee and sleeping during Powerpoint presentations with 1000 attendees.


You are not being paid to change 1 line of code per month. You are being paid to be a living repository of institutional knowledge: so you (can) know (in a finite, bounded time) what line to change in order to achieve the business requirement, and what dozen-or-so Word documents you need to read in order to confirm which unintended consequences may result of that change.

That said, sleeping during massive presentations will hinder your abilities as a living repository... so, hang in there and keep pouring-in the coffee.




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