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Re:Negative 2000 Lines of Code by shubhamjain on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:19AM (#33489741)
I wrote about a blog post about this: https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters. Basically, as your get better, you also get faster. It's an unpopular opinion but great programmers can often perform wonderful in a short amount of time. Hell, it took Linus just a day to start using Git for managing Git[1]. It's a product of experience, thinking clearly, and being knowledgable about good tools for the job.

People will retort: "But, but, but... what about pushing junk?" Well, if you've decent code review system how will that get merged? Pushing junk is often a less of a problem provided you've a good engineering culture. The best teams I worked with were just plain fast. The worst ones had plenty of engineers hiding behind meetings, reviews, and bike-shedding.

[1]: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/when-overachievers-sel...

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