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by rendall 1617 days ago
> I've spent a lot of time fixing or working around messes caused by people who don't know algorithms and data structures.

Rare these days, that kind of mess unless the entire department is off kilter. Contemporary practice is to team up, and be in constant communication about the code base, requirements, approaches. Someone in the team or adjacent will know the proper approach and be able to communicate it to the others.

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> Contemporary practice is to team up, and be in constant communication about the code base, requirements, approaches. Someone in the team or adjacent will know the proper approach and be able to communicate it to the others.

Or you hire a 10x like John Carmack and he codes the thing. No need to constantly have meeting and waste everyone's bandwidth.

That, of course, assumes the department understand what a 10x is and how to attract them.