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That's certainly true of some devs, but I've also seen devs who don't have that problem. Some people genuinely can write good code all night long for months on
by onion2k 5y ago
That's certainly true of some devs, but I've also seen devs who don't have that problem. Some people genuinely can write good code all night long for months on end. That's why the points I outlined aren't about the individual dev. The impact on other people is still bad even if the dev is great. All of my reasoning about why I don't want 'heroes' come down to preferring a strong team of good devs over a good team behind a brilliant dev.
Plus, if you want to make this about individualism and maybe stray into a little game theory, if a team has someone doing loads of more work than other people, one day that person is going to leave and your team will suddenly take a massive hit in productivity. That makes everyone on the team look bad. Everyone does better when there isn't an outlier (apart from the outlier, obvs).
- watwut 5y ago> Some people genuinely can write good code all night long for months on end. Yes. What they can't is do it all night long and all day long for months on end. There are people whose hourly output is twice as múch as normal. I would even say that hourly output variation is much higher then "how many hours per week you are effective" in terms of output. And none of the "people angry because they have to test too much" ever happens.
- AstralStorm 5y agoYup, from experience, you can pull this off for maybe a week or two before you start causing problems or negative output, or get actual health issues. And that's if you're young, older people tend to fall off sooner. The clincher is that you're never getting paid for the extra effort commensurate to it.