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Nine of Cups
"The Beloved Senior Dev"
Cups · People & Team▲ Upright +2
The senior engineer everyone wants to work with. Not because they are the fastest or the smartest, but because their code reviews teach you something, their architecture docs are actually readable, and they remember to say 'nice work' in Slack when you ship something good. Nine of Cups is team satisfaction made human.
▽ Reversed -1
The senior dev who is beloved because they never say no, never push back, and never give the hard feedback. Nine of Cups reversed is the team that feels good but is not actually growing — everyone is comfortable, the code reviews are all 'LGTM', and the technical debt is piling up behind a wall of forced pleasantness.