[hga]

Do you realize how utterly rare you are?

You've definitely homed in on three very important parts of being a good programmer as I define it. You're probably assuming some basic things like good communications (a won't happen without that) and using source code control when the project is big enough (I assume a part of c, but indeed backups come first and in small companies I tended to take that over) ... and I'm struggling to think of something you haven't covered that's relevant to your domain.

And, yeah, it sounds completely illogical, but after a while if you're good you do develop "intuition" that guides you in quickly finding bugs.