> Are you advocating that I put a bunch of magic strings in my codebase? That would be a maintenance nightmare.
Not a bunch, just the large batch queries and reports that use complicated joins. There a places where it makes sense to take the trade-off between maintainability and performance.
> Unless you think I'm suggesting that no devs should ever write SQL at all in their career? Which isn't the case.
It sure appears to be what you are suggesting. Perhaps you should clarify what you were trying to say?
What?!? That’s an absolutely foolish and naive assertion. Please don’t give any of your fellow junior devs that “advice”...