Another thing I want to disavow is this idea that you absolutely have to hire the best engineers. This is some Lake Wobegon Days shit.
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It's like how every driver thinks they're above average. Math says that no go. You don't need the best engineers. You need capable ones.
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Very few companies are truly at the cutting edge in 100% of their engineering efforts. The pace of tech redevelopment makes this impractical
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Old tech exists. Bad codebases exist. Bad codebases more likely to exist when the 10x developers moved fast and broke things!
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If your work is maintenance, bug fixing, feature additions, documentation, capable engineers outperform rockstars. Hire them!
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And then when you've hired them, allow them to rotate into rockstar roles. Don't stick them on code-cleanup duty and expect them to grow.
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