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Elitist crap. What does he mean by significant contribution? Even the best developers need some help with any significant project because nobody develops code in a vacuum and the best projects tend to be used by many people with varying skill sets who over time tend to add their own contributions to the code.

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Something that still resonates with me from university (which is pre-www) is a quote from one of my most cynical professors:

Most people who call themselves experts at something usually just read a couple of articles more than the next guy.

These days, you just have to write a blog entry with a slightly more authoritative tone than the next guy.

That's usually what happened in this day and age isn't it?

One of your most vocal developers read a blog or an article and tomorrow he'll implement the new core threading part of the system because the idea was just damn good and suddenly y'all lose customers :) and he'll get the pat in the back.

That totally sounds like a dev I used to work with.

It reads like a justification for arrogant cowboy programming, eg: Developers that have to spend a long time cleaning up after you are just the mediocre ones that can't keep up.

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