Comment by deadbabe
3 hours ago
The problems is the best devs aren’t the ones doing all the work. You have shitty devs too who are barely thinking or checking anything mixing slop code in with what whatever the best devs are doing, so it all eventually turns to shit.
The job of the best devs is to build the system ("the harness") that let's anyone build near their level of competency by unloading their heuristics into the harness. That is what the most senior, most talented devs on the team need to be doing so that the baseline gets lifted across the board.
It won't be long before the best devs are working and the shit ones are not
Assuming management has the ability to tell the difference and not just count lines of code or commits.
and if this trend will continue the good ones increasingly aren't going to be working either. hopefully they realize they are getting themselves there by cooperating
this assumes it's easy to differentiate between the two groups.