[jayajay]

That's because super "smart" people are taught that they will have 2-3 weeks to prepare for their biggest problems. In real life, big problems happen overnight, and you wake up to shitstorms. That said, some brilliant people emerge from Ivy Leagues, too.

[w_t_payne]

Funny. I've spent most of my professional career trying my damndest to ensure that those shitstorms do not happen in the first place. :-)

(Not always successfully -- I have to admit -- but I try).

[blauditore]

This is a very good argument, and something many devs/managers don't understand well enough.

I've seen a couple of such shitstorms where we had to hack on production systems to get them back to work quickly before thoroughly fixing the actual problem. Almost always, it could have been prevented with proper unit testing, code reviewing and more thought-out deployment processes.

[lordCarbonFiber]

An ounce of prevention beats a cure. The "smart" people are the ones that know taking the extra time to set up tests, controls before production, effective logging and documentation, are the ones that DONT have to wake up overnight to shitstorms.