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by ayrx 4177 days ago
> The kind of mistakes that good programmers make are not normally caught in code reviews. That's pretty much the definition of a good programmer; their mistakes are rare and subtle.

That's just arrogance. Good programmers make stupid mistakes all the time as well. It's the ability to recognize and fix such mistakes that separate "good" programmers from "normal" programmers and that's precisely where code review comes in.