> I found that losing touch with the code is disastrous - one cannot make sensible decisions without a familiarity. This. Your decisions become less and less g

> I found that losing touch with the code is disastrous - one cannot make sensible decisions without a familiarity. This. Your decisions become less and less grounded in reality the farther you get from the code base. It is the same as in the military: generals always fight the last war, usually with disastrous results, like attempting to charge machine gun nests in WW1, because they are too far removed from the reality on the ground.