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Yep, more and more I think of the engineers I want on my team as "product engineers" over software engineers.

Overengineering is the devil

That's something I didn't get for a long time

There is a difference between being smart and effective

I love the word effective and use it all the time.

It almost immediately gets rid of a lot of idealism.

My go-to line is "I don't like working with geniuses, they're idiots."

Of course I don't actually think that, but there does seem to be a kind of parochial navel-gazing that comes with the high intellect territory, and in tech that manifests itself in absurdly over-engineered solutions.

But then their playtime projects may turn into your next big product :)