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> I was a 3-4x programmer before. Now I’m a 9-15x programmer What the fuck does this mean?
by MegaButts 1y ago
> I was a 3-4x programmer before. Now I’m a 9-15x programmer
What the fuck does this mean?
- mouse_ 1y agoNerds got taken aside and talked to about how it's not nice or cool to brag about IQ score so they invented a new artificial metric to brag about.
- throwawayqqq11 1y agoIt means cranking out hello world even faster i guess. I wonder how complex all these projects are people are proud to have completed with the help of AI.
- kaydub 1y agoIt can honestly do a lot of complex stuff. But sometimes you have to guide it there.
- wvenable 1y agoI don't use AI to crank out complex parts of projects -- I use to crank out the tedious straight forward stuff that takes a lot of time that is necessary but low-value. Then I'm freed up to work on the hard and interesting stuff.
- sneak 1y agoIt’s a riff on the “10x programmer” concept. People who haven’t worked with 10x programmers tend to not believe they exist. I’m nowhere near that, but even unaided I’m quite a bit faster than most people I’ve hired or worked with. With LLMs my high quality output has easily tripled. Writing code may be easier than reading it - but reading it is FASTER than writing it. And that’s what matters.
- hansvm 1y agoIt depends on the value of x. I think it's safe to assume x <= 0.75, else they'd contribute negatively to their teams (happens from time to time, but let's be generous). Previously they'd be anywhere from a 0/10 to 3/10 programmer, and now they get up to 9/10 on a good day but sometimes are a net negative, as low as -2.25/10 on a bad day. I imagine that happens when tired or distracted and unable to adequately police LLM output.
- surgical_fire 1y ago0x3 and 0x15 is the same value.