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There can definitely be a 10x difference in “full potential”. I think it’s super rare, and our ability to assess full potential is massively overshadowed by oth
by teucris 6y ago
There can definitely be a 10x difference in “full potential”. I think it’s super rare, and our ability to assess full potential is massively overshadowed by other factors.
- whimsicalism 6y agoSo explain again how > 6. Not all programmers are created equal [...] In actual fact, the performance of one developer can be 10x or even 100x that of another. is "wrong" given that > There can definitely be a 10x difference in “full potential”.
- teucris 6y agoI like maccard’s response better than mine: > measuring two developers and saying one is 10x more productive than the other doesn't mean that the first is 10x better, just that they are 10x better at what you are measuring under the terms you are measuring. If you’re interpreting the author’s statement as an assessment of full potential, then you may be right. I didn’t read it that way, and honestly I don’t think that assessment can be easily made.