Justin SearlsJul 12, 2023

Remember some of the hot-button issues in tech over the last decade? People angry over the use of the word "passion". The merits of "craftsmanship". Whether the "10x developer" is a myth.

Something connects all of these debates, and nobody's really talking about it. That's why I wrote this essay: https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-07-12-the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer/

The looming demise of the 10x developer

Tech's most contentious debates end with people talking over each other, but they make way more sense viewed through the lens of inter-generational conflict.

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Show threadJoYoJul 13, 2023

@searls

a generation of programmers who didn’t care about code quality the same way we did.

when was this era of code quality?
certainly not in my career.

code quality only comes up when someone else is reading it.

Show threadJustin Searls
@JoYo the "we" in that sentence was referring to people in the software craftsmanship movement, and many of them were midwest-US based early adopters of agile practices like Extreme Programming and the Pragmatic Programmer
Jul 13, 2023 at 5:06pmWeb