Some programmers might code 10x faster, but lack the experience and wisdom to know they shouldn't be writing a piece of code at all. If your metric is lines of code, then the 10x programmer looks really impressive. They might truly be able to reinvent some wheel 10x faster than someone else.
By another metric, someone with the experience and wisdom to solve the problem by integrating existing solutions and writing less code may hypothetically complete a task 10x faster than the former 10x programmer - effectively becoming a 100x programmer in comparison.
But it's very likely some managers won't recognize what the "100x" programmer has accomplished. He just made the task look "easy", and now he's going to have to fill his time with more tasks, and at review time might look mediocre in comparison to the fast but naive 10x programmer.
You miss the point. "10x" doesn't mean working 2-3x longer than everyone else. If that's necessary, bad news, you're not a 10x coder. You're just an above average workaholic.
Of course, and hopefully he does. Working double the hours in a job you don't like would be awful.
I think most of us would accomplish 3 or 4 times more than we do given an additional 30+ hours of peace and quiet without distractions or external commitments, so I'm really asking if he's actually accomplishing more than any normal 1X developer would in his circumstances. I strongly suspect he's very fortunate to have a job and a family who support his choice to spend large amounts of time doing what he wants to do.
I don't understand how a software company can have such a terrible website. Social media icons cover the first few words along the left margin, making the article unreadable.
Right. I mean, if the website was simply letting you know about their talented Sec / DevOps team (something like https://latacora.com), sure nbd. A website like that tells me they're either (1) so talented fuck a website! I 10x'd this webpage in 19.3 seconds as a courtesy or (2) we are also bad at other things!.
I don't know anything about Belitsoft, other than they have a blog written by two "Customer Success Managers" and 3 other dudes, and none of them use Chrome.
This doesn't seem to be a real Q and A from the people in the article.
A comment from Victor Volkman (going by username at least) at the end of the article (one of the people "interviewed" in the article):
"Although I'm flattered to have my comments included in this article. I must point out it was mined from several different Quora articles about unrelated topics. At no point was I contacted as to whether I wanted to participate in this article. I would have appreciated the courtesy of a "heads up". I'm not hard to find as they posted at least three of my social media contact links."
Not sure why you're being downvoted, maybe someone thinks you are calling devs introverts?
The author's response is
> Yes. It's true. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to share information about 10x programmers another way.... They are introverts and do not like to share their experience (in spite of fact that a lot of people want to here them).
Which I also think is pretty rude. There's a difference between an introvert and a mind reader. If you don't even ask someone, that's not introversion.
Not to mention that introversion isn't a flaw or even a limitation of behavior, but a matter of whether interpersonal communication is taxing or energizing to an individual.
Is this a common writing technique? It reminds me of those fake interviews on radio stations with pre-recorded answers 100 DJs get to use to pretend they got to talk to Tom Cruise.
> At the end of that phase, I decided I could not survive such boredom.
> My solution was to invent a mini-query language, which could express the key features of each query in a YAML file. Thus, I had the excitement of developing a new expressive language, which was a genuine intellectual challenge as opposed to tedious cut-and-paste mechanics. The end result was much more pleasing to myself.
You're right, the site went down before I could look at the team page but now that I do it seems those people aren't on it. My apologies.
Although, they don't need to in order for it to be an ad. But to be fair, content marketing is a better term. And a good piece of marketing at that. It tricked me (intentionally or not) into thinking those people worked there and if I was a client that might get me to buy.
Why would someone who's 10* better than their peers need to work double the hours?