Ask HN: Bad programmer producing good code
3 by fedd | 1 comments on Hacker News.
What do you think, can it be that some type of bad programmer would write a quality code? They will never try to reinvent the wheel, they will google up the best practices, write in small understandable chunks, thoroughly follow naming conventions in order to not confuse themselves in the future, document everything in comments etc. Their bad part is mostly the speed. Lacking experience, they have to consult with stackoverflow, refactor every now and then and eventually burn out. While the good and fast coder will deliver the working code in hours and days to the manager's satisfaction, though not as universal and forward looking (in terms of configuration and integration hooks). And the coder that I classify as mediocre knows and employs all the programming patterns which makes their quickly written code standard and understandable, but not always working as expected until several testing iterations pass. So what do you think, does this classification make sense, who would you hire and what does the first category need to do?