Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ...
by bmitc on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:29AM
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I’m not sure what you mean by 80% developers, but I am generally cautious on developers who are seen as uber productive. I worked with one in the past, and they would blow through so much code. It amazed everyone else, but they left a literal wake in the code. It was just a gigantic mess when you dove into it that wasted so much time down the road in onboarding others, refactoring it, maintaining it, etc.
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Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ...
by kayodelycaon on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:14PM
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Sorry, I should have clarified, they are developers that quickly do 80% of the work and move to the next thing.
They are often quite intelligent and very productive, but aren't inclined to think a problem through to completion.
Re:Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their produ...
by bmitc on Thursday June 30, 2022 @10:27AM
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Gotcha, and no worries! That makes perfect sense. I was just calling it out that I wasn't for sure to ward off inadvertently supporting or commenting on something I wasn't sure about.