It depends entirely on what you're doing. I've worked in shops were I helped setup a golden way of building software.. and it worked great. We could take in jun

It depends entirely on what you're doing. I've worked in shops were I helped setup a golden way of building software.. and it worked great. We could take in junior engineers with no clue how to code and have them writing really good stuff in like two weeks, basically impossible to screw up. The tradeoff was that all of our tasks were.. basically the same kind of task. It was rare to do "revolutionary" work. I work now in a situation where every single case that comes across my desk is actually unique. I still have a toolbox, but I need a really big variety of tools and picking the wrong tool is very easy. Suddenly instead of a golden way I'm actually focusing on testing designs quickly and in isolation to make sure we're picking the right tools for some given design.