alt Hacker News> The thing is it's not possible to see who generates slop and who generates code, and if you fire the only people who knows about the codebase intimately, you'll be on a very exciting, possibly fatal ride. I don't recommend this.
This is exactly what I said in my top comment. This is a huge problem.
...and then you said:
> Ideally you want your luddite fired...
The luddite is the person holding everything together.
Like the office maid who looks like doing nothing but keeping morale high and everybody's sanity intact.