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It's like questioning the existence of 10x NBA players or 10x chess players. The top super GMs are basically 10x better than most other GMs, who are themselves
by cowmoo728 4y ago
It's like questioning the existence of 10x NBA players or 10x chess players. The top super GMs are basically 10x better than most other GMs, who are themselves 10x better than most IMs. It seems strange that programming would be one of the fields that doesn't have a similar distribution of skill.
I think the actual pushback of the 10x programmer idea is that it's more often used to bully regular programmers into working longer hours, rather than actually identifying top performing programmers.
- sophacles 4y agoThere's also the part where "developer" is more akin to "athlete" than "nba player". There's lots of different types of developer, just like there's lots of different types of athlete. A 10x NBA player will certainly not be a 10x Olympic Swimmer also, more likely .1X. Part of the problem is 10x developer gets talked about like they are going to be 10x athlete at NBA and Swimming and Golf and, and, and... that's what doesn't exist.