> the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.”

Those are the best. The suckers still write code.

   > …How exactly are they
   > measuring their best
   > developers?…

Easy. They're the chumps who are perfectly fine working twelve hour days; never getting a moment's respite from work…

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“As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute…all before they even arrive at the office.”

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