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The most productive programmers are the ones that make other programmers more productive. Making a tool or library or other piece of reusable infrastructure tha
by larsrc 4y ago
The most productive programmers are the ones that make other programmers more productive. Making a tool or library or other piece of reusable infrastructure that increases the productivity of 100 engineers by 10% is 10x productivity.
- mring33621 4y agoI view helping others as a force multiplier. I prioritize that over my own stuff and have actually been rewarded for it sometimes.
- thunkshift1 4y agoManager spotted
- Apocryphon 4y agoAre there a lot of managers prioritizing internal dev tools and infra over flashy product release announcement bullet point features?
- justin_oaks 4y agoOf course not. They're all skunkworks projects. Just like refactoring has to be. I've developed internal tools that help me a lot and help others too. None of the managers of any of my jobs has ever asked "When did you find time to build that?" I'm sure it's partly because management doesn't have a good idea of how long things take to build. The internal tool could have taken you a week but management probably thinks it took a couple hours.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThen the parent comment makes no sense since the grandparent comment is espousing a view that managers would allegedly not.