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> Now they have to deal with some magic in the codebase. I don't hear people giving advice not to hire smart people.

People do advise against hiring people who write incomprehensible code.

Yeah every now and then you run across some genius with sloppy code style and you have to confine them to a module that you'll mark "you're not expected to understand this" when they leave because they're really that much of a genius, but usually the smart people are smart enough to write readable code.




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