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I still believe it’s about who does what. Code written by an average developer is breakable by a better skilled developer. Vice versa is not true.
by csbartus 5y ago
I still believe it’s about who does what. Code written by an average developer is breakable by a better skilled developer. Vice versa is not true.
- orf 5y agoThat’s not how any of this works. At all. Not even slightly. Like, what? “Thank god, I only hire developers with a skill level of 78 so it will take a developer of skill level 79 or above to even have a chance at finding a bug here, and we all know skill level 79 developers are rare so I’m secure!” This isn’t an RPG, life is full of unquantifiable things and differing conflicting incentives. If anything, the domains in which exceptionally skilled developers often work and the tools they use make bugs more common. It doesn’t take a Linus Trovalds to find bugs in Linus Trovalds’s code.
- gitanovic 5y agoI strongly disagree... also superstar make mistakes, and cannot know every single quirk. In particular when you have languages (like C++) with tons of "features" that enable very weird side effects in very weird situations. By the way the worst clusterfuck I ever saw was caused by a very talented programmer that implemented a very complex object store on disk... the thing was brittle at best, and it failed in very spectacular ways. Very entertaining to debug