Re:Relative (Score 1)

What I discovered is that there is a need for crappy throwaway code, far greater than I thought.

This Finding highly productive developers (or any other technical professionals) that have enough control of their own egos to realize that corporate development demands quickly developed (cheap), imperfect code is tough. A mediocre developer (from a quality standpoint) that knows his or her place can easily be 20x more productive that another more (technically) talented developer that can't let go of perfection and just buckle down and do their job. When I hire software developers, I look for rock stars - but - for me, a rock star developer is one that can collaborate well, communicate exceptionally well, and understand the business (and their role in it) well enough to realize perfecting code is synonymous with wasting the company's money.