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Developers come in many different forms, and I think this kind of "high performer" can be most valuable in an early-stage startup environment, where code quality hardly matters if product-market fit cannot be discovered before the runway ends.

I also suspect that many of these "high performers" are very aware of the technical debt they are adding, and simply prioritize shipping over anything else. To them, the mess is just a fact of software development, to be cleaned up only as can be justified by the needs of the business.

In general I don't actually agree with this view, but I also try not to dismiss it outright. (My counterargument usually involves the fact that technical debt will slow you down in the mid-to-long term, so if there is any expectation of keeping code around, it actually saves the business money to invest up front in code quality.)