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How is this guy like 1000x more productive than a typical developer? Seriously, some business school should do a case study on him to figure out what he’s doing
by eigenvalue 3y ago
How is this guy like 1000x more productive than a typical developer? Seriously, some business school should do a case study on him to figure out what he’s doing differently!
- notwhereyouare 3y agoi imagine it's 1) he reports to himself 2) doesn't have 5 levels of product owners/project managers "figuring out what's best for the end user" that, often doesn't align with the end user's needs and 3) reports to himself
- eigenvalue 3y agoYeah I’m sure that’s part of it. I think he’s also just ridiculously good at programming and knows how to squeeze every ounce of performance out of a WASM app. One thing he has going for him is that the app design was basically done already for him by hundreds of people over 20+ years to design the original Photoshop interface (he’s basically totally stealing all of that from some old version of Photoshop, maybe version 6 from 2000 or so). It’s still an absolutely insane amount of work though.
- llamaInSouth 3y agoyou are over estimating the amount of software work it takes when you do it right.
- llamaInSouth 3y agoit doesnt take a lot to be 1000x more productive in the software world and there are many ways to get there.
- eigenvalue 3y ago10x, sure. 100x, I know there are plenty of people like that across the whole world. I don’t think there are many 1000x devs, and it certainly does take a lot to get there!