Ex-SWE recalls his first code review was done by Guido van Rossum — and he never fixed the TODOs
signulll · x · 2026-10-12
A developer shares a story from his first week as a SWE at big tech: lacking Python readability certification, he was assigned a random reviewer who turned out to be Guido van Rossum, creator of Python. The review dragged on for a week with substantial change requests, so he left a pile of TODO comments promising follow-up PRs — and Guido approved. He says he never got around to any of them, musing that somewhere his code still carries the Python inventor's unaddressed feedback.
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