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Yea funnily enough I just added a comment along these lines about restaurants in a different story. Just because an engineer is 10x better in some sense that an
by phreeza 5y ago
Yea funnily enough I just added a comment along these lines about restaurants in a different story. Just because an engineer is 10x better in some sense that another one, it doesn't meant that 10 of the lower quality engineers will make up for it, just as eating 10 times at McDonald's isn't going to be as much fun as eating once at a great restaurant (for most people)
- woliveirajr 5y agoBut, I think, you should consider that it's 10x at McDonald's vs 1x at a good restaurant and 9 days eating nothing at all.
- phreeza 5y agoYes, this is obviously just considering utility at a higher level of the hierarchy of needs, not pure subsistence. Otherwise everyone should just be slurping Soylent all the time I guess.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoonly if you think that any organization that hires a 10X engineer doesn't hire any 1X engineers.
- coldcode 5y agoI'm a good cook, but compared to Wolfgang Puck, I make shit on a shingle look brilliant. You could hire 100's of me and not get a decent restaurant. After so many decades as a programmer, there are enormous gaps between programmers in their ability to deliver quality. Calling something 10x is not a measurable quantity, but watching quality delivery over and over gives you the impression; the number is arbitrary.