I think I probably mentioned this story here. I had a close friend in college. He works for Microsoft and was the the main developer for Cortana (which is retired now and replaced by copilot). He is an ace coder back in the day before there was any LLM.
When we are in university together at OU, he came running to my room one day, with his new laptop that he bought recently. He said to me that he need to return it. So I had why, it seems to be working. He said, the laptop is making noise (the fan! And there were no SSD back then!).
So the Ace coder who thinks in code, didn’t know or realized that laptop had a fan and that makes noise! :)
Knowledge can be surprisingly segmented!
Haha, a classic example. Definitely good as part of a team but not leading anything!
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Understanding that is the key to building exceptional teams IMO.