The Broken Code Advantage
The Broken Code Advantage There’s a moment in every programmer’s career when they realize something counterintuitive: the people getting promoted aren’t the ones writing the most code. They’re the ones fixing it. This seems backwards. We celebrate the architects of new systems, the builders of elegant APIs, the creators of innovative features. But if you watch closely, you’ll notice that the engineers who become indispensable, the ones who get pulled into the most important meetings, who get the urgent Slack messages, who somehow always seem to know what’s really going on, aren’t the prolific feature builders. They’re the debuggers. ...