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deadbabe • today at 4:27 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.


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CharlieDigital • today at 5:17 PM

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.

walthamstow • today at 4:30 PM

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

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