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by darepublic 3109 days ago
At the end of the day this seems to me to be still anecdotal and not very testable. Would it be possible, given the code history of n number of developers + quality of the output code, to create a predictive model of a software engineer's 'greatness'? Seems daunting and fraught with potential problems but of a lot more value than just the typical platitudes; 'honesty, creativity, passion' (take three virtues, earthporn background etc)