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timaclestoday at 4:08 AM1 replyview on HN

Honestly, after years of seeing this play out, a lot of devs really lack the judgement to know when something is good enough to deliver and will endlessly delay projects to “ do the right thing”


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devmortoday at 5:04 AM

Absolutely. It’s one of the defining characteristics of what makes someone a capable senior in the role IMO.

I have known a lot of extremely talented developers, some with more technical skill than me, that simply failed at their job because they couldn’t come to terms with the fact that their job isn’t to produce the most perfect code possible for the problem.

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