Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner
We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.
Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers Photo by Martijn Baudoin on Unsplash We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated. They rewrote most of the company's core architecture. They introduced new build processes, new tools, new languages. They rejected most pull requests, raising the bar on what was expected of everyone else. Nobody understood the code they wrote but nobody would admit it. All the h
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