When you’re trying to scale teams of thousands of programmers, the dynamics of sloppy ones leaving traps and cruft in the codebase become the things you care ab

When you’re trying to scale teams of thousands of programmers, the dynamics of sloppy ones leaving traps and cruft in the codebase become the things you care about. At least, it’s the stuff I care about now. Much of what we do is mundane, and, if we do it right, more of what we do should feel mundane because the right abstractions and metaphors already worked their way into the tools and systems we use. However, I still contend (and I’m far from the only one to hold to this) that the worst thing you can have on your team is someone with a lot of energy but poor judgement/awareness. Doing it well is hard. Doing it poorly is far easier, to the point that there are folks that will be a team net negative.