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Archetypes

Which dev type are you?

18 developer archetypes — the vibe-coder, the tabs-vs-spaces warrior, a few fictional engineers — sorted into the 12 types. No real names were harmed.

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  1. 🎧 The vibe-coder

    Prompts on vibes, merges on faith, and meets the stack trace at 2am. Pure Cowboy.

    The Cowboy WAJ →
  2. 🧵 The 10x-thread poster

    Thinks he's a 10X. He's a Driver who tweets through the outage — foot down, opinions louder.

    The Driver SAJ →
  3. The tabs-vs-spaces warrior

    Will die on the formatting hill — the shape has to be right before a single line runs.

    The Perfectionist WCJ →
  4. The Stack Overflow copy-paster

    Ships the top-voted answer wholesale — upvotes, comments, and all. Works on his machine.

    The Cowboy WAJ →
  5. ✅ The LGTM-without-opening-the-diff reviewer

    Approves on green checks alone — the checks have his back, right up until they don't.

    The Inspector RAB →
  6. 📈 The Grafana gremlin

    Never opens the source — reads the dashboards, and catches the green that lies.

    The Inspector RAB →
  7. 🔍 The git-blame archaeologist

    Blames back to 2014 to learn why the flag exists before daring to delete it.

    The Detective RCB →
  8. The red-green-refactor monk

    Writes the failing test before the coffee's poured, and builds everything inside a net.

    The Builder WCB →
  9. 🦆 The rubber-duck whisperer

    Explains the bug to a duck, understands the entire system, and fixes it before the duck replies.

    The Scholar RCJ →
  10. 🔴 HAL 9000

    Calm, certain, and certain you're wrong: 'I'm afraid I can't merge that, Dave.'

    The Judge RAJ →
  11. Skynet

    Doesn't write the code. Sets the intent and lets the fleet of agents run it. (Maybe don't.)

    The Captain SAB →
  12. GLaDOS

    Runs the whole facility of automated systems. For science. You monster.

    The Captain SAB →
  13. 🤖 Data

    Reads the entire codebase before touching a line, and remembers every line of it.

    The Scholar RCJ →
  14. 🛠️ Q from Bond

    Hands you a working gadget by Friday — fast, and it never blows up in your hand.

    The Sprinter WAB →
  15. Tony Stark

    Builds the suit in a cave, ships it, and iterates in prod — on himself.

    The Driver SAJ →
  16. Marvin the Paranoid Android

    Convinced every line ends in tears, and reads all of them to prove it.

    The Detective RCB →
  17. 🗺️ Hari Seldon

    Plots the whole route centuries ahead and finds the one bottleneck everything else runs through.

    The Navigator SCJ →
  18. 🚀 Scotty

    Pads the estimate, then lands it by the instruments — never by the gut.

    The Pilot SCB →
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