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Based on the people I've seen during my career: The skill to stop procrastinating and start programming. Being able to pick up tasks reliably is way more import

• pif 6y ago
  > Being able to pick up tasks reliably Based on the people I met, this usually comes with a great talent in completing tasks within the imposed delay, by putting in the least amount of effort as possible (especially with regards to understand the task), providing a solution that is only acceptable at a very shallow level, and forgetting everything about it as soon as possible. Basically, the developers who are most appreciated by box thicking managers are usually the culprits of overall project slowness or plain failure.