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>It might be due to lack of skill or experience, or maybe laziness, or lack of discipline, or some other negative attribute.

I think you might be committing the fundamental attribution error. )https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

>the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors.

Rather than considering external issues like time crunch, management pressure, or too-high a workload, or anything else it's much easier to just assume everyone else is a lazy and shitty programmer.



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