>I have a strong suspicion that people smart enough to do advanced meta programming on their own are not smart enough to collaborate with equally skilled cowork

>I have a strong suspicion that people smart enough to do advanced meta programming on their own are not smart enough to collaborate with equally skilled coworkers on code that uses all those abstractions to the max. Even collaborating with your own former self is more difficult that writing new code. I'm an unabashed Clojure fanboy and will talk the language up to anyone who will listen, but one thing that I've been thinking about lately is that good judgment on abstraction use is necessary for using such powerful tools. I don't think the place to tackle it is by being "smart enough to understand," but rather by being "disciplined enough to not abstract sometimes." The exciting thing is that discipline doesn't require you to be super smart, just to think it's worth caring about. Also half-baked, but I think it's something.