I tried to be specific in what I said; I said that it was OK, and good, that these people existed. I was not making an argument that these people are necessarily less productive; but rather, that there was a qualitative difference in how they approached code that made a difference in what they could accomplish with it.
(Though I think in the medium to long term, they will end up less productive, because of a lack of abstraction and leverage of existing code beyond copy and paste. Probably, we don't disagree that much.)
I tried to be specific in what I said; I said that it was OK, and good, that these people existed. I was not making an argument that these people are necessarily less productive; but rather, that there was a qualitative difference in how they approached code that made a difference in what they could accomplish with it.
(Though I think in the medium to long term, they will end up less productive, because of a lack of abstraction and leverage of existing code beyond copy and paste. Probably, we don't disagree that much.)