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For people who haven’t seen the twitter thread, context is needed here. The thread was written by a VC on what he thought a “10x Engineer” to him was, and he g

For people who haven’t seen the twitter thread, context is needed here. The thread was written by a VC on what he thought a “10x Engineer” to him was, and he grossly summarized pretty much the opposite of that. https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?s=21 https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?s=21

knightofmars 7y ago
That was cringe inducing. I want it to be satire.
- PascLeRasc 7y ago
  I thought it was satire for most of the thread. I can't imagine celebrating someone being a poor mentor and disagreeable.
crsv 7y ago
On top of that, in terms of VC's he's an utterly unremarkable one. Poor guy had no idea he was he stepped in with that thread. He was just trying to virtue signal and play thought-leader.
notus 7y ago
Kind of interesting most of the people agreeing with him are Indian.
manishsharan 7y ago
Wtf . how did this guy beocme a VC ? His entire twitter feed is so mundane -- except for the 10X post -- that shit was hilarious. Even funnier were desperate founders who liked his post.
- asdff 7y ago
  The only requirement to be a VC is to end up in control of a huge bag of money and a checkbook.
  - su30mki117 7y ago
    I have no idea what it takes to be a VC, but having looked at the tweet author's linkedin profile, he has a Master's in CS from one of the top schools in India and a PhD in CS from a US university, also has a solid work experience. People usually do not magically reach positions of power in an industry.
- quickthrower2 7y ago
  A mundane person in charge of allocating investments? Well I never.
EnFinlay 7y ago
This is a some next level bullshit > 3. 10x engineers laptop screen background color is typically black (they always change defaults). Their keyboard keys such as i, f, x are usually worn out than of a, s, and e (email senders).
gurkendoktor 7y ago
> he grossly summarized pretty much the opposite of that. Here's an actual quote from the thread: "10x engineers don't hack things. They write quality code and know exactly how the code has to evolve, and have a mental model of overall code structure. They write at most one design document, and the rest is in the code." The thread wasn't particularly crazy as far as Twitter takes go. I think it only went viral because of tweet #3, the one about background colors and keycaps. The whole meme about 10x programmers writing terrible code very fast must have come from somewhere else.

knightofmars 7y ago

That was cringe inducing. I want it to be satire.

PascLeRasc 7y ago
I thought it was satire for most of the thread. I can't imagine celebrating someone being a poor mentor and disagreeable.

crsv 7y ago

On top of that, in terms of VC's he's an utterly unremarkable one. Poor guy had no idea he was he stepped in with that thread. He was just trying to virtue signal and play thought-leader.

notus 7y ago

Kind of interesting most of the people agreeing with him are Indian.

manishsharan 7y ago

Wtf . how did this guy beocme a VC ? His entire twitter feed is so mundane -- except for the 10X post -- that shit was hilarious. Even funnier were desperate founders who liked his post.

asdff 7y ago
The only requirement to be a VC is to end up in control of a huge bag of money and a checkbook.
- su30mki117 7y ago
  I have no idea what it takes to be a VC, but having looked at the tweet author's linkedin profile, he has a Master's in CS from one of the top schools in India and a PhD in CS from a US university, also has a solid work experience. People usually do not magically reach positions of power in an industry.
quickthrower2 7y ago
A mundane person in charge of allocating investments? Well I never.

EnFinlay 7y ago

This is a some next level bullshit > 3. 10x engineers laptop screen background color is typically black (they always change defaults). Their keyboard keys such as i, f, x are usually worn out than of a, s, and e (email senders).

gurkendoktor 7y ago

> he grossly summarized pretty much the opposite of that. Here's an actual quote from the thread: "10x engineers don't hack things. They write quality code and know exactly how the code has to evolve, and have a mental model of overall code structure. They write at most one design document, and the rest is in the code." The thread wasn't particularly crazy as far as Twitter takes go. I think it only went viral because of tweet #3, the one about background colors and keycaps. The whole meme about 10x programmers writing terrible code very fast must have come from somewhere else.