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[-] galoisghost@aussie.zone 52 points 6 days ago

Surprise! The best developers aren’t rock stars. They’re normal people who do their job and spend their spare time doing stuff they actually enjoy. It’s an industry of fucking narcissists.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 days ago

Most of the people I've met who consider themselves "rockstars" are middling at best, and are pretty much led around by the nose by whatever latest fad they just studied/found learning material for/found sales material for.

They absolutely knew how to play office politics and games about appearances to execs (being able to spout a lot about whatever latest term is showing up in the financial magazines the execs read while not saying anything concrete helps a lot), but when push came to shove they were always trying to find ways to make their responsibilities everyone elses problem so they could play with some new toy while they left a trail of halfassed rush work and mountains of tech debt in their wake.

[-] fluxx@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

A lot of my development experience is actually about handling people. Both management and other developers. Ego is indeed a big problem. I wish my job would be just programming/designing/debugging/testing, but this is not the nature of most of the jobs. Instead it is managing expectations, estimations, negotiating specs, features, explaining what is realistic, what is not, what is possible and what is not and why. It gets tiring quickly and is also thankless as often arrogant people who aren't actually helpful or working in the best interest of the company get mistaken for rock stars and get to do even more damage you need to fix. You also need to deal with that from time to time.

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