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Don't make things worse! (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Be More Productive in Software

Software is interesting in that to be quite a bit more productive than other people sometimes all you have to do is not make things worse. One developer doing something wrong or short-sighted can do so much harm so quickly and so secretly even maybe they don't know how much they screwed up, he says. "It's kind of a close analog is like physical engineering and construction right like building buildings bridges etc" He continues: "So many of us make mistakes that are just headed in the wrong direction and make things worse."

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