[gregkerzhner]

Someone who is friendly but incompetent is fun to shoot the shit with, but they will also make a commit that breaks prod and duck out for the weekend leaving you to fix the mess. Less competence ultimately means more burden and headache for those that are more competent, and at the end of the day, I value having coworkers who I can rely on more than having coworkers who are easy to talk to.

[csee]

For me, they're not even fun to shoot the shit with. There's nothing like 1 year of built-up resentment at having to pick up their slack again and again only to be paid roughly the same and sharing half the credit with them.

[pydry]

IME many less competent folks tend to avoid doing the work that puts everybody else in this position and will pick up donkey work instead.

[watwut]

This is more related to risk taking.