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In a five person team one 10x programmer tried to do everything. After some futile resistance everyone else stepped back to let the fool drown. He took every mo
by croo 4y ago
In a five person team one 10x programmer tried to do everything. After some futile resistance everyone else stepped back to let the fool drown. He took every moderately hard task to himself. He was a great and relentless developer with duck tape mentality but deep knowledge and managed to do more than 70% of the project done. The rest of us worked around him. It was miserable.
I much prefer working with lazy 0.7x developers with a healthy relationship to code and people.