> the person who writes 1,000 lines in 2 hours of code that is buggy and unmaintainable > the person who gets the same assignment, does nothing but sit in his

> the person who writes 1,000 lines in 2 hours of code that is buggy and unmaintainable > the person who gets the same assignment, does nothing but sit in his cubicle thinking for a week. And then over the course of a day writes 100-200 lines that does %90 of the assignment, and with no bugs. I think you're leaving out the person who writes the buggy and unmaintainable version in 2 hours, in order to discover any pitfalls they failed to imagine before starting the project, then spends the remaining 38 hours of the week thinking about the proper solution to both the foreseen and unforeseen problems.