"have an endless bucket of work" A long time ago I managed a developer who was a genius at finding and fixing bugs - so I thought I would reward him by writing

"have an endless bucket of work" A long time ago I managed a developer who was a genius at finding and fixing bugs - so I thought I would reward him by writing a new module we needed from scratch. He could not do it - when faced with a complex mess of existing code he was perfectly happy and could dive in and fix stuff, faced with a blank sheet of paper he froze and didn't know where to start. Developers are people and all people are different - we all have our strengths and weaknesses.