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I'm exactly the same way. From what I can tell, we really are just lazy 10x devs. I've seen and mentored enough people in the office to realize that I am object
by blindmute 5y ago
I'm exactly the same way. From what I can tell, we really are just lazy 10x devs. I've seen and mentored enough people in the office to realize that I am objectively much faster and more efficient than the average developer, sometimes up to 10x as much.
The sad fact is that outside of FAMGAN (maybe even in there), the average developer is so mediocre that this isn't noticed. I've had around 7 developer jobs of various levels, and I have always been able to maintain an average velocity with 5-10 hours of work per week. I know some of my coworkers were also this lazy, but I know many more really were not. They're just that slow. This held true even at a 4 dev startup! (I had to increase the hours to ~15/wk there)
Sometimes I could finish the whole sprint in 1-2 days. I learned the git commands to rewrite timestamps and would push that work intermittently throughout the sprint with `at` or cron jobs. I always had great performance reviews. No, you are not alone.
- physicsguy 5y agoIt’s certainly not worth underestimating that many developers stagnate and don’t even try to keep up to date. I joined a C++ shop that was claiming to do modern C++ and one dev in particular took both an age to write anything and did it in a way that ignored anything from C++11