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by JustSomeNobody 3677 days ago
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Most of the very best developers I have had the opportunity to work with had this quality. They are very comfortable in what they know and what they don't know.

Nearly every cocky programmer I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know.

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> Nearly every cocky programmer I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know.

So true, and this is applicable in almost every discipline, really:

"Nearly every cocky x I have ever worked with were average at best. And you could never teach them anything they didn't "already" know."