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I remember one programmer that I characterised with "He writes a lot of code". I ended up with one of his not small routines that I replaced with a one page ass
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 7y ago
I remember one programmer that I characterised with "He writes a lot of code". I ended up with one of his not small routines that I replaced with a one page assembler routine in MVS NIP rather than OPEN.
When reworking printing software to support multi color, I researched a commonly used subroutine though several layers of calls and replaced it with, yes, a single character constant.
I lost count of the many legacy applications where I tossed out great gobs of code produced by "productive" programmers.
- RealityVoid 7y agoI do not think 10x means "churns out code" but rather "produces results". And by this metric, by golly, there are a couple 10x out there for sure.
- prostheticvamp 7y agoI think OP here was asserting that he was 10x in comparison to that guy, as being much more efficient.
- james_s_tayler 7y ago10x is also about quality. Not raw output. A lot of times the really fast devs are fast because they don't stop to consider how they can do things in a fundamentally much better way, they just churn out the status quo as fast as possible. Those type are not 10x.