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I don't know that I agree that perfect coders are more dangerous than shitty ones. When you're behind on a project because someone is taking too long, it's upfront and obvious and usually they can be encouraged to speed up things as long as they document where work needs to be done afterward.

Bad developers are the gift that keeps on giving. Everything looks great, you ship, it mostly works, and then you spend four years struggling to build anything on top of what was written, squashing data-loss bugs that take weeks to track down and can never have their root causes fixed, etc.

Companies that end up in the latter situation are basically zombies. They're already effectively dead, but nobody knows this is the case for years, pouring time, effort, and money into a bottomless sinkhole.

Perfect coders can also serve as really good mentors on teams, and catch serious issues everyone else would have missed.