If only good people wrote code. It happens here that the really good developers find themselves stuck fixing bugs that were created by poor programmers. You'd think the ideal would be the other way around: good programmers writing great code, and the newbies spend their time diagnosing issues in that code on the rare occassion they surface.

However, scheduling pressures cause the good programmers (who have better diagnostic skills than the poor programmers) to be yanked off of development tasks to diagnose emergency problems out in the field, while the underutilized poor programmers, being heads in management's head count, are put on the task of writing next generation software.

Thus the cycle of crappy software and discouraged senior programmers propagate...  ¶ 1:46 PM