Looksmaxxing, some new fad kids are doing to make themselves look better, has made its way into the software development industry. Jeffery Cook, Staff Developer at D'Amore Software LLC, has fallen for the fad his son has become so obsessed with. It started small, updating method bodies in a PR. But over time has grown to a full blown ordeal, and every commit touches files that have nothing to do with that task.
According to one developer in the company, Cook doesn't do real work anymore. "This is driving us crazy. He doesn't work on user stories. Just sits there making the code 'prettier'. Every commit has the same commit message, 'Looks better, bruh.' He started adding settings documentation telling us which font and sizes to use because they 'mog the others'."
"I'm totally Y-pilled. In the last 4 months I've improved the code visual quality over 6,000%. You compare this code to anything else, it mogs it. I want to present code looksmaxxing at conferences. Do you think the NDC conferences will accept a session about this? Why am I asking, of course they will."
Another developer on the team confirmed the code does look better. But it, "...doesn't need to."