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IMO having a fancier keyboard that does more clickety-clack will not make you a better programmer. If anything, your co-workers cannot work as good and will have to put more energy to focus.

Experience and the skill to remember or recall well, help a lot with engineering.

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A fancy keyboard on its own is probably not a good indicator.

But I would switch this around and definitely say with my few years of experience, those that were “the best” were also those that were interested the most in their tools of the trade.

And whether that is a mechanical keyboard or a better screen or better performance or better IDE setups. Doesn’t really matter. Sadly many companies don’t seem to encourage this enough imho

sorry - you'll have to pry my model m from my cold, dead fingers

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