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I think even though these types of developers are fairly rare, they have a disproportionate negative impact on the quality of the code and the morale of their c
by alisonatwork 2y ago
I think even though these types of developers are fairly rare, they have a disproportionate negative impact on the quality of the code and the morale of their colleagues, which is perhaps why people remember them and talk about it more often. The p95 developers who are more-or-less okay aren't really notable enough to be worth complaining about on HN, since they are us.
- ryandrake 2y agoAnd, as OP alluded to, I bet these kinds of programmers tend to “fail upward” and disproportionately become eng managers and directors, spreading their carelessness over a wider blast radius, while the people who care stagnate as perpetual “senior software engineers”.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agomaybe they care more about the quality as they become managers etc. quality takes effort, maybe they don't like taking the effort but like making other people take the effort.