Reading Coders at Work does not make me smarter either (and I've read it). Don't get me wrong, it is an interesting book but let's not forget that it is a pers

Reading Coders at Work does not make me smarter either (and I've read it). Don't get me wrong, it is an interesting book but let's not forget that it is a personal interview type of book. These people are telling stories about their life + computers. Not necessary to focus on educating other people. If you look at the list of the people for CaW, most of them are either in Research or no longer actively writing code in recent environment. They might write code fragments or design stuffs (more like Architect role). But I do like to pick some of the opinions regarding unit-test that all of these so-called great developers believe and shove them to other developers :).