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by twobitshifter 1318 days ago
I think you’ve grouped many things into a good/bad spectrum, but in reality we’re talking about different qualities of a programmer.

* Productivity * Simplifying Complexity * Design * Knowledge * Documentation * …

Are all different things and it’s possible to be skilled at one and not another. Someone can be great at design but slow at getting the simplest things done, another may know a computer inside and out, but write zero documentation.