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The best paid engineers I know seem to be the super fast hackers who write unfathomable amounts of code in short order.

Unfortunately thoughtful design and engineering doesn't get recognised

in my experience this is because there are very very very very few thoughtful designers and engineers, especially compared to people that are cranking out code.

Also thoughtful code varies from that library that does that thing you need with an api so intuitive you don't even need autocomplete or docs (though it has docs) to the library that is extensible to every possible use case you will never need but missing the obious ones you do or at least makes them horribly unergonomic in the name of that extensibility and purity with regard to some random paradigm that is self evidently the best one.

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