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A "D" coder is outsourcing. or code that is bad, runs slowly, has bugs and is often incomplete. Oftentimes things are written in one heroic coding session and simply cannot be touched after that. BUT it meets the "specs".

ooowww I've seen some of that.

An "A" coder's code is simple to spot: It's boring. There's nothing heroic or clever (that's hard to debug) it's well documented so even junior devs can understand it, and thought has been taken so that it can be extended in the future. To put it simply it shows taste*. That is a rare thing indeed.



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