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My feeling (just a feeling, I don't have evidence for this either way) is that pair programming works better for training than code reviews. I suspect actual training also works better, but since no one does that it's hard to compare.
I've worked at two companies that are probably P99+ in how much explicit training they offer, but they're not even in the same league as what you get if you walk down to your local go/chess/bridge club, let alone what you get if you're a serious amateur athlete or go player.
Given it is hard to measure costs and near impossible to quantify benefits, it would be nice if major tech companies were significantly different so we could at least compare macro outcomes. Instead there is surprising amounts of groupthink.
One thing I find funny about programming is the slow diffusion of practices. Fuzzing/randomized testing has been standard practice in hardware for my entire life and there are papers applying this to software that are decades old, I that doubt even 5% of devs use fuzzing today.
One fact about athletes is that there is limited time that can be put to directly productive use (competition), as opposed to indirectly productive use (training). This isn't obviously true about software developers.
Directionally agree, but I think most programmers put in a lot of garbage time, so it's not like people don't have free time at work. Most devs I talk to say that they're happy if they get four productive hours of work in, but most seem to average at least twice that many hours.
This tweet makes me want to join a go club. They’re really that helpful to beginners?
This surely depends on the club, but I think some (many?) are. I hear the Palo Alto Bridge Club is great, I have no idea about chess or go clubs in the bay area, though :-).
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