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Oh I see, I partially agree. You can yak shave forever, until you find another thing to yak shave. It takes some maturity to balance this and avoid disrupting the project because you optimized non important stuff.

I even had a strange lesson. In a team of three, the smartest did try to improve everything and never finished so his contributions were mostly wasted. While the weakest programmer, but one who would focus on solving some tickets in very low quality ways managed to feel less harmful to the team overall.




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