>>>absolutely insufferable human beings but were some kind of supernatural coders who were doing the work of 20 people

I don’t at all condone being that guy. However….

It’s pretty amazing what an engineer can accomplish if you can actually get into a flow state because people are too afraid/intimidated to interrupt you every 10 minutes and you aren’t being invited to endless (and mostly useless) meetings all day.

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