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I wasn't questioning your seniority. I pointed out how you decided to pick out a totally irrelevant, rhetorical sentence out of all points that OP made, and th

I wasn't questioning your seniority. I pointed out how you decided to pick out a totally irrelevant, rhetorical sentence out of all points that OP made, and then decided to refute that, by claiming how much experience you have, and setting up yourself center stage, instead of adding value to the actual discussion topic at hand, which is the coaching gap.

g051051 9y ago
I directly disputed the central thesis that OP (the person I was responding to, not the article) was putting forth, that senior developers shouldn't be coding: > You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too! > "Mentoring" is basically the job you hire a senior dev to do What other "points" did OP make?
- purerandomness 9y ago
  Your reading comprehension suffers under your fragile ego. Nobody said 'senior developers shouldn't be coding'. The topic is about a lack of mentoring for junior devs. You being a certified 100x rockstar developer is totally fine but irrelevant, because you don't scale. What would scale is if you were to start coaching junior devs, because if you don't, all the juniors will keep reinventing 'left-pad' in this week's ES201x iteration, while your retirement keeps getting closer. Instead of adding to the discussion on how to solve the coaching gap, you decided to defend your coding efficiency and how you deliver features faster than a Junior Dev. You missed the point completely. You're part of the problem the article addresses, don't you realize?
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  - g051051 9y ago
    > Your reading comprehension suffers under your fragile ego. Nobody said 'senior developers shouldn't be coding'. That is exactly what the post I was responding to said, and I've quoted it several times. Here it is a gain, since you keep glossing over it: > You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too! > "Mentoring" is basically the job you hire a senior dev to do So, yes, the person I responded to said "senior developers shouldn't be coding'". > You being a certified 100x rockstar developer is totally fine but irrelevant, because you don't scale. How so? I'm a mentor as well as a developer. In addition to doing my part to train the next wave of devs, I also code my ass off. What part of that doesn't scale? > You missed the point completely. No. That's what you did though. And are increasingly insulting about it as well. > You're part of the problem the article addresses, don't you realize? Who's talking about the article? I was talking about the bogus "point" in the post I responded to.
    - atoko 9y ago
      For what it’s worth I agree with the person you’re replying to. The OP is saying: given two senior applicants with the same coding skill level, the one most suited to the job is the person who can communicate to juniors and delegate effectively. I’m surprised you mentor, given all the hubris you have displyed on this thread.
      - g051051 9y ago
        > The OP is saying: given two senior applicants with the same coding skill level, the one most suited to the job is the person who can communicate to juniors and delegate effectively. If that's what he was saying, I'd be much more in agreement. Instead he said, effectively, that senior devs shouldn't be coding because they can't do it any better than junior devs.
        virgilp 9y ago
        No. Read it again. What I was saying is two things: A. GOOD junior devs can (and often do) outperform good senior devs at the metric of "quantity of code produced" (I later added that IMO in fact they should, not just can) B. (the central point of my argument, really) If you're working on the premise "we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor juniors" , you're misusing the senior devs. It's not just cost-ineffective (you're paying a senior do to a junior's work), but you also run into other risks as well (juniors that ask questions force seniors to explain stuff, which in turn forces them to think clearly about it; you may have experienced the phenomenon where you understand something much better after explaining it to somebody else)
        g051051 9y ago
        And I'm saying that your arguments are wrong. I don't care how good the junior dev is, I can out code them every time. > If you're working on the premise "we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor juniors" , you're misusing the senior devs. Actually, no argument there. Mentoring is indeed a critical function of senior devs. > It's not just cost-ineffective (you're paying a senior do to a junior's work) And you lost me there. I'm so much more effective that it's always cheaper to have me do it, assuming I don't have a higher priority task (in which case it's a non-issue, since I'm working on that one). I.E. I'm a 10x (or 100x) developer, but I don't get paid 10x (or 100x).

g051051 9y ago

I directly disputed the central thesis that OP (the person I was responding to, not the article) was putting forth, that senior developers shouldn't be coding: > You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too! > "Mentoring" is basically the job you hire a senior dev to do What other "points" did OP make?

purerandomness 9y ago
Your reading comprehension suffers under your fragile ego. Nobody said 'senior developers shouldn't be coding'. The topic is about a lack of mentoring for junior devs. You being a certified 100x rockstar developer is totally fine but irrelevant, because you don't scale. What would scale is if you were to start coaching junior devs, because if you don't, all the juniors will keep reinventing 'left-pad' in this week's ES201x iteration, while your retirement keeps getting closer. Instead of adding to the discussion on how to solve the coaching gap, you decided to defend your coding efficiency and how you deliver features faster than a Junior Dev. You missed the point completely. You're part of the problem the article addresses, don't you realize?
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- g051051 9y ago
  > Your reading comprehension suffers under your fragile ego. Nobody said 'senior developers shouldn't be coding'. That is exactly what the post I was responding to said, and I've quoted it several times. Here it is a gain, since you keep glossing over it: > You don't hire senior devs to code - good junior devs can code not only "just as fast", but probably faster too! > "Mentoring" is basically the job you hire a senior dev to do So, yes, the person I responded to said "senior developers shouldn't be coding'". > You being a certified 100x rockstar developer is totally fine but irrelevant, because you don't scale. How so? I'm a mentor as well as a developer. In addition to doing my part to train the next wave of devs, I also code my ass off. What part of that doesn't scale? > You missed the point completely. No. That's what you did though. And are increasingly insulting about it as well. > You're part of the problem the article addresses, don't you realize? Who's talking about the article? I was talking about the bogus "point" in the post I responded to.
  - atoko 9y ago
    For what it’s worth I agree with the person you’re replying to. The OP is saying: given two senior applicants with the same coding skill level, the one most suited to the job is the person who can communicate to juniors and delegate effectively. I’m surprised you mentor, given all the hubris you have displyed on this thread.
    - g051051 9y ago
      > The OP is saying: given two senior applicants with the same coding skill level, the one most suited to the job is the person who can communicate to juniors and delegate effectively. If that's what he was saying, I'd be much more in agreement. Instead he said, effectively, that senior devs shouldn't be coding because they can't do it any better than junior devs.
      - virgilp 9y ago
        No. Read it again. What I was saying is two things: A. GOOD junior devs can (and often do) outperform good senior devs at the metric of "quantity of code produced" (I later added that IMO in fact they should, not just can) B. (the central point of my argument, really) If you're working on the premise "we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor juniors" , you're misusing the senior devs. It's not just cost-ineffective (you're paying a senior do to a junior's work), but you also run into other risks as well (juniors that ask questions force seniors to explain stuff, which in turn forces them to think clearly about it; you may have experienced the phenomenon where you understand something much better after explaining it to somebody else)
        g051051 9y ago
        And I'm saying that your arguments are wrong. I don't care how good the junior dev is, I can out code them every time. > If you're working on the premise "we can’t afford to have our senior developers mentor juniors" , you're misusing the senior devs. Actually, no argument there. Mentoring is indeed a critical function of senior devs. > It's not just cost-ineffective (you're paying a senior do to a junior's work) And you lost me there. I'm so much more effective that it's always cheaper to have me do it, assuming I don't have a higher priority task (in which case it's a non-issue, since I'm working on that one). I.E. I'm a 10x (or 100x) developer, but I don't get paid 10x (or 100x).