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Re:Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others by nine_zeros on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:00PM (#30080333)
If every senior only does internal assistant work, which senior does actual building of complex services?

What is more important? Building better services or being a library writer?

Every point you describe is exactly perverse incentives.

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Re:Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others by skrtskrt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:22PM (#30089483)
"Write great code to build stuff" is still a core part of the job.

But it doesn't really enable anyone else on the team, other than providing a model of well-structured code to follow - and most people's code is really not as great as they think it is.

I'd rather have a team of average coders who do things to enable and better each other and the team over a team reliant on a great coder or two who can't or refuses to enable anyone else.

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