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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by vsareto on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:01AM (#23769924)
>like the tech lead who spent six months under water, only showing up to the office maybe once a week

Do these folks face any consequences for behavior like this?

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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by zippy5 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:28AM (#23770202)
Why would they? it’s still cheaper to have a talented dev overbuild a framework than it is to find bugs in the code of someone who didn't understand the problem they're solving.
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