Hiring Good Programmers Matters

Doctor O writes "Joel Spolsky (of joelonsoftware fame) has some good points and fun with numbers on the quality of programmers and whether it is more profitable to go with cheap or good programmers. His point is that a good programmer will simply create code of a quality that average programmers never can create. An interesting read."

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Of course...

[millennial]

With a sufficient number of bad programmers, and an infinite number of monkeys, you can create any program... perfectly. Just have the infinite monkeys get to work on fixing the bugs. You'll have a few copies of the program that are absolute crap, but eventually a winner will pop up.