Photo by Martijn Baudoin on Unsplash We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated. They rewrote most of the company's core architecture. They introduced new build processes, new tools, new languages. They rejected most pull requests, raising the bar on what was expected of everyone else. Nobody understood the code they wrote but nobody would admit it. All the hardest tasks were assigned to the rockstar. They'd have it done faster than anyone else. The engineering always sounded very impressive, even if the rockstar was the only one who knew how it fit together. Everyone else was moving a lot slower in comparison. Everyone was struggling to keep up, to learn the new libraries, and to do things the rockstar way. A few years after they joined the team, suddenly they were gone. They had gotten…
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