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> 99% of them are idiots and have no business being programmers

I feel the same way. If you have a group of idiots, you need process as a harm reduction measure. A very high contributor bar is a prerequisite for a process-light environment, because if you can't trust people to do the right thing, you need a system to force them into a conservative approximation of the right thing, and this system is called process.

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So what you're proposing is that every company hire only the best?

That's what they all think they're doing. Math doesn't work that way.

Not sure what you are replying to, but I think at least parent is saying because people aren't as good as they should be, you put processes in place. I don't think anyone is saying what you stated. Most companies might believe they are hiring the best, but their coworkers are the ones that know otherwise and do things like use design documents to give some structure where needed.

In other words, you take measures to catch errors, mitigate failures, and protect yourself rather than say "go code and push to production everyone, we can just roll back!" That might work as stated in some domains, but not others.

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