Do novices make quick fixes and experts clean changes?

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y - Jan 8 '19 - - Dev Community

"When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code." - Richard Pattis

Among other things, we discuss this quote in our show this week. In a knee jerk reaction I want to agree, but I think the answer is more nuanced than this.

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So what do you think? Is the habit of making quality fixes an expert only trait? Do senior covers even make better fixes?

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