Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
Uhh, please don&#x27;t listen to any advice in this thread which says &quot;fire your highest performing engineers&quot;.  You will literally turn your project into a &quot;legacy&quot; system overnight.<p>You&#x27;re a manager.  Your job is to focus their priorities on business outcomes.  If you&#x27;re not providing focus they will run with whatever pet problems they have with the existing system.  That&#x27;s called doing their job.<p>I would not worry about style or complexity.  Style is irrelevant and complexity is driven by the business case.  Don&#x27;t try to write software that will last 100 years.  Its going to be put on maintenance mode and never touched again the second your highest performing engineers leave or are re-orged.