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Re:The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020) by nicoburns on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:28AM (#26791847)
> If it’s 30%, then it’s possible 30% of your team will over-abstract, and if you make them a principal, they will over engineer most of the codebase.

Isn't the idea to make a non-over-abstracting engineer the principal, and then they will bring everyone else into line with code review, etc.

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Re:The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020) by runawaybottle on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:27AM (#26792580)
Business usually values speed. If you over engineer or just duck tape everything, so long as you are fast about it, you’ll be on the short list to be a principal.

Wrong values propel them to the top.

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