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points by deadbabe 15 hours ago | 0 comments

The problems is the best devs aren’t the ones doing all the work. You have shitty devs too who are barely thinking or checking anything mixing slop code in with what whatever the best devs are doing, so it all eventually turns to shit.

[–] CharlieDigital 14 hours ago

The job of the best devs is to build the system ("the harness") that let's anyone build near their level of competency by unloading their heuristics into the harness. That is what the most senior, most talented devs on the team need to be doing so that the baseline gets lifted across the board.

[–] deadbabe 7 hours ago

that's a pointless endeavor. The seniors should just be building everything, not wasting time working on a harness that won't guarantee results anyway.

[–] walthamstow 15 hours ago

It won't be long before the best devs are working and the shit ones are not

[–] tonyedgecombe 14 hours ago

Assuming management has the ability to tell the difference and not just count lines of code or commits.

[–] linhns 9 hours ago

How to separate them if the code is already mixed?

[–] ShinyLeftPad 14 hours ago

and if this trend will continue the good ones increasingly aren't going to be working either. hopefully they realize they are getting themselves there by cooperating

[–] EricDeb 14 hours ago

this assumes it's easy to differentiate between the two groups.