# The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming

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“The guy in the room” is from Jim McCarthy in “The Dynamics of Software Development,” not Weinberg. Here’s [a presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6BCHqEbyc) where McCarthy discusses the problem.

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