[commandlinefan]

I wonder, though, how much the culture of "talent" and "rockstar developers" contributes to this. We programmer types often perpetuate this narrative that programming ability is something that you're "born with" and you have it or you don't - unlearnable, unteachable and ephemeral is the mystique of the programmer. So, how do you figure out who the capable ones are and who the incapable ones are? Well, of course - the ones who f'ed something up are the incapable ones, who just didn't "have it" after all.