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Discussion on: What is your best skill as a developer?

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Bruce Axtens • Edited

Creating problems. Sure, I could say that problem solving is my best skill (and it probably is), but the fact is I also create problems by developing tech that then needs to be maintained, fine-tuned, updated, rewritten, replaced, re-thought. There are a few thousand lines of C# and JavaScript processing sales leads for two car-sales companies. I listened, thought, developed but now I'm stuck with a fairly constant regime of maintain, fine-tune, update that I can't get away from. So maybe my best skills as a developer are dogged persistence and faithfulness to the product.

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Marissa B

Starts out with "creating problems" and finishes with "dogged persistence". Add "pivoting while marketing self" to your skills list too :P

I feel that though. You create a cool utility or tool and now it's your child.

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

nice

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Whats that old saying, Gotta break a few million itterations to make a program