Quote Originally Posted by MiaShino View Post
Anyone else who works in software development knows how to recognize inefficient and sloppy code without having to actually see the code. It allows us to begin formulating debugging solution as early as possible.
I do work in software development and that's why I'm saying we don't know what they did if we don't see their code. I get plenty of users at work who have some manner of coding experience and try to wax poetic on "Well all you have to do is blah" and when I say "no" it's "well why not" and the answer is "because it doesn't work that way".

If all the code was always written exactly the same way everywhere, we could just have computers write it for us and we'd be out of jobs. You need a human programmer because there's variation in code, in how databases are set up, in how everything communicates, etc.