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> The guy that takes a 10 minute set of verbal requirements, extrapolates, and builds a Web 4.0 Whooziwhatsit in a day, before you even know what Web 4.0 is.

I can't think of anything worse in my team than someone that just constantly dives head first into code. Great coders stop and think, discuss, then code. IMHO.



I can. The guy who is always listening for chances to jump in and prove how smart he is, instead of actually hearing what the other person is saying.


We have both of those guys on our team. But hey, they do usually get stuff done.

The guy who is not interested in good software design, can't learn or pick things up for their job, who requires constant repetition and babysitting, and finally breaks your software out of ignorance is worse than both of these.


Why does he have this need to prove that so bad to other people that it trumps everything? Doesn't he know this himself already?


good point




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