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> And you end up left with only mediocre devs who just want to take the salary and be home by 5pm because they care far more about their family/hobbies/life more than the quality of the app they're building at work.

I think it's amazing that in your mind this is a negative thing.

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It's of course a very positive thing, but so is creating something great for other people to use.

The economic prosperity that affords us the opportunity to spend leisure time with our loved ones comes exclusively from great creations.

You don’t necessarily have to disregard family/hobbies/life in order to make great creations at work. One can still do great things clocking in at 9AM and clocking out at 5PM. It’s a myth that all great progress comes from Code Ninjas grinding 100 hour weeks, a myth that benefits companies and VC investors only.

Yes I agree - I’m just saying that there’s good things to be done at home and at work and the two must be in balance over the course of a lifetime, or else society decays.

I think it's the not caring about quality before 5pm that GP was calling out.

Maybe, I'm not sure though. The "because" part is pretty directly saying that caring more about your family/hobbies/life than the app you're building at work is what makes them mediocre developers.

“Because that’s _all_ they care about”

That wasn't the quote. Why did you use quotation marks?

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