Coping With Receiving Comments on Your Pull Requests

In the software development world we write code on our individual computers and then our code has to be sort of uploaded into the main code the users actually run while using the app. Engineers write code on their computers and they create something called a ‘pull request’ (PR). A PR is a request from the Engineer who wrote the code to merge it into the main code. This PR is an opportunity for other engineers to review the code before it is merged. They can add comments to the PR so that the engineer who wrote the code can adjust it as requested. PR comments that request for something to be changed usually hurt my feelings cause I’m too proud of the code I write. It’s like when writing an essay and getting an F instead of an A. It sucks. I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my PRs lately. Wife and family have been helping me cope with this feeling.

Jun 8, 2025 - 23:50
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Coping With Receiving Comments on Your Pull Requests

In the software development world we write code on our individual computers and then our code has to be sort of uploaded into the main code the users actually run while using the app. Engineers write code on their computers and they create something called a ‘pull request’ (PR). A PR is a request from the Engineer who wrote the code to merge it into the main code. This PR is an opportunity for other engineers to review the code before it is merged. They can add comments to the PR so that the engineer who wrote the code can adjust it as requested.

PR comments that request for something to be changed usually hurt my feelings cause I’m too proud of the code I write. It’s like when writing an essay and getting an F instead of an A. It sucks. I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my PRs lately. Wife and family have been helping me cope with this feeling.