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- Bob, a legendary software engineer at Facebook, was responsible for shipping Facebook Groups and known for being a prolific hackathon winner.
- The narrator, a productivity nerd with an elaborate Vim/tmux/hphpd setup, was shocked to see Bob using vanilla Sublime Text with poor syntax highlighting and printf debugging.
- Bob's success came from his product taste and intuition, not his tools or editor setup.
- The key lesson is that solving the right problems and having good product intuition matters more than optimizing workflows.