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As a side note, gotta say, scare-quoting "collaborate" seems like a pretty weird flex in a time when everybody's stuck working from home whether they prefer it that way or not. Maybe you prefer to work entirely within a silo, rarely dealing with colleagues in the course of your day-to-day. Most don't, nor should they. Most kinds of work, even the kinds of work that we do, really aren't better done that way. I worked…
In my experience, there are a lot of developers who get really uncomfortable once they start having more developers working on their code. There’s a lot of effort which has to be done documenting the code: Either by explaining how the code runs to other engineers on the team, or by having documentation showing how the code is arranged and runs, something a lot of engineers are not very good at doing. It takes a lot o…
I think it's better described as a skill than as a talent, too. The former is learned, the latter innate, and as someone with absolutely none of the latter, I can attest that the former is attainable nonetheless.