The real miss here is that you had a chance to share, teach and learn with your coworker, and accomplish your original intent but instead you unintentionally fo

The real miss here is that you had a chance to share, teach and learn with your coworker, and accomplish your original intent but instead you unintentionally focused on an individual producing code at a higher level than their peers. I'm continually suprised at how absolutely brilliant developers fixate on being 10x individuals, a (perhaps impossible or at least) very challenging goal rather than make everyone on their team 10% better, a relatively easy task.