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snsjzhhzyesterday at 8:16 PM1 replyview on HN

This has been my experience as a dev, and it always confuses me when people say they prefer to work at a “higher level”. The minutiae are often just as important as some of the higher level decisions. Not everything, but not an insignificant portion either. This applies to basic things like correctness, performance, and security - craft, style, and taste are not involved.


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co_king_5yesterday at 8:18 PM

> This has been my experience as a dev, and it always confuses me when people say they prefer to work at a “higher level”.

> The minutiae are often just as important as some of the higher level decisions.

Frankly, a failure to understand this is a tell that someone is not equipped to evaluate code quality.