Some learn by making their own mistakes, and the experience gained can outweigh the cost. It pains us to watch but that is our hard lesson.

give developers time to think. they are your warriors. thought is their blade. you want them sharp and practiced, both warrior and weapon.

For a good developer a specific goal makes paradise of a vacuum. Without such a goal the best we can do is randomly thrash about with code.

sometimes us developers need to be told to do the simpler thing. not because we are too dumb, but because we are too smart for our own good