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If a developer is truly good, and thus truly indespensable, they can leave and barely be missed.

• water8 6y ago
  Until the entropy in their wake catches up with everyone else
  • Buttons840 6y ago
    What do you mean? I meant that the best developers work well with others, coordinate with others, write maintainable code and document that code. All of this makes things easy to maintain if the developer leaves. These are rare traits and thus make an indespensable developer.
    • water8 6y ago
      The developer leaves and it starts with having to ask a co-worker how to configure something simple. Then suddenly the code isn't as well documented or the documents all issues that cause things not to go smoothly. Things slowly get harder to maintain because that person isn't there fighting entropy to keep order.