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The rockstar metaphor always strikes me as unprofessional because it seems so incompatible with team work. Why aren’t there any rockstars in other areas of engi

• zimpenfish 12y ago
  It's even sillier when you consider that the average rockstar turns up after many hours of a large team of people setting up a precise controlled environment, does maybe 2 hours of work, then buggers off in luxury whilst the team dismantle, pack, and ship the environment. A true rockstar developer would change one or two lines of code in a finished project (created by a team) immediately before it was committed then move onto the next project.