[stephengillie]

This blog post seems to be about pigeonholing other people - "John is a bad programmer because he does $x / Mary is good because she does $x". Labeling people doesn't help them. Pointing out problematic behavior doesn't directly lead to solutions. It doesn't tell people how to change their behaviors to remediate the problem.

These generalizations seem too high level to be of any use, anyway. Good programmers want to program, and their interest will carry them up through skill levels. They'll want to learn and improve, and if they can't learn from your workplace you're wasting their time and yours. Bad programmers don't want to program, and should do something else.

[sbornia]

couldn't agree more.