On: Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity

[realharo]

It's even harder when you factor in people who seem to get a lot done quickly, but at the cost of huge technical debt that will slow the project down to a crawl in the long run.

Or the other extreme, people who overengineer everything in anticipation of a future that will never come.

[zzzcpan → realharo]

> but at the cost of huge technical debt

Which is also unquantifiable and is a very similar myth.