> I'd prefer to hire somebody who takes twice as long to complete a task, if they're taking that time to ensure that it won't cause problems downstream or in ed

> I'd prefer to hire somebody who takes twice as long to complete a task, if they're taking that time to ensure that it won't cause problems downstream or in edge cases. Fast & sloppy programmers who maximize a commits per hour metric are the worst. That's a strawman. You metric of "job done" is "ensuring that it won't cause problems downstream or in edge case". Fast & sloppy programmers are not fast, as they didn't achieve your metric of job done. Thus you actually prefer fast programmers to slower ones.