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> ... it's not about gobbling together the right tools and do some plumbing to make it work. No, it's using tools to craft a work of art. Anyone not recognizing this is an inferior software developer by definition ...

So — if you don't prioritize your ego and personal sense of artistry over accomplishing the task, you are an inferior developer? I would never want a person like this on my team.

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I mean, I guess that's one way to interpret what he's saying... I interpret it as "have an eye for design and creativity to solve your problems, don't just be mindless and glue together frameworks and libraries". I personally think this is compatible with working on a team.

I've far too often seen code that does look like it's just a bunch of libraries glued together and if you really teased it apart you'd end up with something that's a lot less code and a lot fewer dependencies. And I definitely know people who wouldn't think twice about just adding another dependency to a codebase just so they could use one function. Sometimes that's justified, sometimes it's the result of lazy thinking.

You dont get it do you?

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