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whstl 53 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams

Anyone that has been doing this job knows that the majority of average developers in any workplace will also cut corners every once in a while and leave a lot of tech debt to others, with very few exceptions.

This myth that more productive developers are somehow worse and will ruin projects is just rationalization without any ground in reality.

alfalfasprout 53 days ago [–]

Except it’s not a myth. Many of us have encountered the perceived more productive developers that ship barely passable garbage.

whstl 53 days ago | [–]

The myth I’m criticizing is that sloppiness has a stronger correlation with being productive. It doesn’t. Plenty of slow developers who suck.

This is just rationalization.

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