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Not only are generally experienced developers really valuable, but developers experienced with the project they work on.
It takes a long time to actually understand everything in a large project, and if you do, you save a ton of time because you just know a lot of context already. No need to research or figure things out, you just know.
That's why the constant reorgs in larger corporations are incredibly hurtful to performance. If you want performance, let people stick to the few projects they know instead of switching stuff around all the time.
I’m the last of the original developers of a particular system and now it’s my turn for management to move me on. There’s a new person and they are being instructed to use AI to work on it. It’s like moving the system to hospice care, looked after by the janitor with an Alexa until the lights go out.