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Excellence is a trap. It leads to hubris. An excellent programmer can be really annoying, and excellent code is unnecessary. Instead of excellence, strive for
by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Excellence is a trap. It leads to hubris. An excellent programmer can be really annoying, and excellent code is unnecessary.
Instead of excellence, strive for "working code", collaboration, quality, velocity, improvement, shipping the right thing at the right time. Use debt wisely and move forward.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoIn this episode of How It's Made: Mediocrity.
- Bjartr 3y agoExcellence is a trap ... Proceeds to describe characteristics of an excellent developer
- corethree 3y agoRight he's talking about a developer who is caught in the trap. A better way to put it, is a developer about thinks he's excellent. What someone thinks is, the majority of the time, not inline with what he actually is. Especially for developers who think they are excellent. Looking at you Brian Camacho.