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mellutussa on March 1, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

I once worked with a guy that probably would be classed as a 10x developer.

Always when the discussion about an edge case came up, he'd dismiss it as "that's never gonna happen".

The of course when those never-gonna-happen things happened, he would absolutely not want the responsibility to fix them.

sealeck on March 1, 2024 [–]

It's easy to convince management you are brilliant by tackling the common cases of a problem and leaving the edge cases to someone else to solve further down the line.

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