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Yet Another Take On Software Developer Archetypes

If you search for Software Developer Archetypes you'll find a large number of perspectives on this ranging from serious and helpful to lighthearted to frankly...kinda mean. I'm going to give a lighthearted example of core Archetypes I find when dealing with software developers. The Squirrel These developers are happy to jump between frameworks, languages, design patterns willy nilly and will be running 1000 miles per hour toward a "Haskell event processing framework to render static HTML files" and after 3 weeks/months, suddenly pivot, turn 135 degrees, and implement the remaining 10% (which will only take a couple days) in Ruby on Rails. By the end of a project, there are so many frameworks, dead ends, and partially done solutions that no matter what the original design was...their immediate solution for all problems is to "rewrite it in...something else". The Sloth These are almost diametrically opposed to squirrels, they often know "one thi