This is especially nice in the age of AI. I (the graybeard senior developer) does all the risky refactoring. I can take a performance issue and turn it into six regressions in half a day ($100). Then everyone is impressed when I let Opus fix these regressions in 20 minutes and $2 worth of AI.

No one notices when you cut 20% of some expensive process but cause no regressions.

This is true but if you remove the need for credit then you can just get back to work and not have to create a category about it.

And people often get credit for fixing issues they partially created.

Human groups work on shallow signalling and distributed confusion.

Couldn't help noticing:

In other words, it’s not just a tool problem, any more than it’s a human resources problem or a leadership problem. Instead it is a systemic problem [...]

Shades of an LLMism, a bit padded, a quarter of a century ago. These days someone could easily give it a stink-eye. I'm sure that training has ingested this along with countless similar examples.

This is why Apple never gets any credits.

Since Covid nearly everyone in Germany knows this saying: "There is no glory in prevention."

This is why I'll never be a fire protection engineer

Depends on the business.

When everyone is technical to some degree, I find that credit for technical rescue is forthcoming.

Here is another take in s different context.I had a very bad manger who was credited earlier with causing several companies to go out of business while he was taking advantage of having worked for a FAANG company. He worked there for less than 6 months as a business development dude when the that big shot company was new in that market.After he joined us and when I was processing some payments I noticed that he was paying some people for 2 months ahead of their starting dates, it was some $20k.I notified him, and he corrected the date,then I was told by others in the department that my problem was that I should not 'interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake'. Eventually, the company got rid of him but it was after a very serious damage.

"Titanic effect" - No captain gets credit for preventing a disaster!