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To: i-node who wrote (462612)	3/10/2009 6:22:24 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574863

"Just something in they way they're wired, maybe." Probably. Excellent programmers are more like artists. They are grown and not made. And they are usually at least an order of magnitude more productive that regular programmers. If not more. The problem is getting enough of them together, and keeping them together, to get a project done. But they can do magic. Reality, though, is you are often better with a larger, disciplined team of regular programmers. They may not come out with an elegant, breathtakingly slick product over a long weekend, but you can draw up a schedule and be sure of hitting your milestones. And they don't get insulted over having to fix bugs. If you have some artists, run them through the trenches on some projects and then yank them into design. Their talents are much more valuable doing design.