Female programmer actually good at job, just using you

A new study from Harvard indicates that Shelby, the new nodejs developer, is in fact a reputable open source contributor who is simply exploiting your need to impress her, the Ivy Collegiate Reports.

"Shelby is very pretty", says your inner voice, "but she hasn't grokked a lot of basic computer science concepts you would expect from even a junior level uni student. It's genuinely surprising she has made it as far in her career as she has with how often she stumbles. But I would never say that out loud, because people would just assume I'm discriminating because she's a woman".

Shelby has an approved RFC in the official npm package, requesting comment for her design to officially add support for monorepos to the npm spec. She also designed and architected the new event bus messaging system that is replacing the legacy gRPC backend. She's letting you take credit for it to avoid upsetting you, because she knows you will double your effort to fix problems for her if you think she likes you.

"Shelby is always coming to me for bugs that I really can't fathom how she can't solve on her own", continues your blissfully ignorant internal monologue, "frankly, I'm a little embarrassed for her. I'm not sure she's solved a single bug or design task without requiring extensive legwork or input from me."

At press time, Shelby was introducing the team to the devops tool she built while you were addressing the menial tasks she delegated to you. It looks pretty polished, but there's a few bugs that could use some work before it will really even be useful at all. That's ok, you'll take a look at them over the weekend and then maybe she'll smile at you on Monday.