> you ought to know how valuable someone who can fix bugs, especially arcane ones, can be. This is very true. It's easy to ship new features; that's creating s

> you ought to know how valuable someone who can fix bugs, especially arcane ones, can be. This is very true. It's easy to ship new features; that's creating something from scratch, you get to make up the structure to suit your needs and introduce the tech debt that suits the project. Bugs show up in a constrained design space; to fix them, you have to operate within the architecture of the system that already exists, which can be much more difficult.