On: Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer

[runawaybottle]

It is also the most empathetic thing you could do. Try to imagine what it would be like if someone handed over their ‘brilliant’ code to you.

[burnished → runawaybottle]

I think thats part of the authors point, you can't really have brilliant (or even just clever) code if its expected to be handed off to another team.