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by tchaffee 1337 days ago
That's a horrible heuristic. All you are doing is selecting for engineers who have failed to fix the problem like you have failed. Misery loves company, eh?

I have decades of experience, mostly work in JS, am often in the top 5% on StackOverflow and very rarely need to delete node_modules. Neither do most of the people on my team. Some of our junior devs reach for that sledge hammer out of frustration. Which is fine. I used a lot of sledge hammer when I was first learning PHP too.