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> Figuring out how to become a force multiplier sounds more valuable to me than a 10x developer. I'm always astounded by what people imagine a 10x developer is
by Ensorceled 6y ago
> Figuring out how to become a force multiplier sounds more valuable to me than a 10x developer.
I'm always astounded by what people imagine a 10x developer is, especially some one who calls themselves a senior developer.
Hint, they aren't a lone wolf who writes 10 times as much code as the rest of the team, doesn't deign to sit in scrum planning sessions and creates chaos with every pull request they self approve. Maybe those people CALL themselves a 10x developer ...
A 10x developer IS a force multiplier. Every 10x developer I've worked with wrote easy to use APIs and Frameworks that made every other developer on the team much more productive. A 10x developer is a senior developer on steroids; they do everything this author thinks a senior developer does and more.
- zo1 6y agoTo add to your point: the "lone wolf that writes 10x more code" is not someone you want on your team because they're not a multiplier in any sense other than simply "writing 10x more code". They're actively detrimental.
- Ensorceled 6y agoI have a draft blog article called "The Almost 10x Developer" because I have seen exactly this soooooo many times.
- ncmncm 6y agoI know a 500x developer. He is not proud, because he knows somebody else who codes 10x faster. This other person wears out several keyboards before his CPU is obsolete. If programming were really engineering, you would need 20 years to be Senior. A Senior Engineer keeps the organization from making disastrous mistakes and unnecessarily complicated designs. Since the title was squatted, actually-senior programmers are being called Principal Engineers. Do not make the mistake of calling yourself a "Principle Engineer".