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You can measure:

Junior Developer: By how much more someone else was willing to pay them.

Intermediate Developer: By how screwed you are after they leave.

Senior Developer: By how screwed you're not after they leave.



This is true and very unfortunate. Nobody realizes when a senior is working hard at preventing bugs complexity, or making code understandable or refusing to implement unnecessary features.


This is a really interesting statement. I interpreted it several different ways before understanding what you mean.

Yes, I agree with all of these.




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