
The Myth of the 'Rockstar Developer': Why Humility and Teamwork Trump Lone Genius
Let me tell you about the time I tried to be a coding Bruce Springsteen. Picture this: 3 AM, energy drinks stacked like Jenga towers, me hammering out code to “fix” a colleague’s “subpar” implementation. Two days later, my “brilliant” refactor caused a production outage that made our error logs look like a Tinder feed for exception classes. That’s when I learned rockstar developers belong on stage - not in software teams....