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alfalfasprout on March 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams

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

whstl on March 14, 2025 [–]

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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