tefto be clear, when a recruiter, manager, or ceo says someone is a "genius programmer" or "10x" or similar
they mean "someone who works 80 hour weeks and we only pay them for 40"
every time
i guess programmers get called "ninjas" when managers aren't sure if they're working unpaid overtime, but it looks like it
jack@tef programmers are called ninjas when they're dressed as janitorial staff and/or stagehands
✧✦Catherine✦✧@tef 40? that's a good deal, sometimes they pay for 20
Oblomov@whitequark @tef if it's truly 10x why would they pay more than 8 hours to get 80 hours per week
Boarders@tef any 10x programmer working more than 4 hours a week is a mark
Allpoints@tef "all of our developers are full stack" -> Our UI/UX sucks and our AWS costs are killing us
Ludwig Vielfrass@tef Yep. One one of them for a while until I wised up. Still did some marathon sessions while I was at NASA though, because that was more like having fun than work.
Martin Vermeer FCD@tef They won't be getting 80 hours of *productive* work though... toxic masculine Stakhanov nonsense.
Ryan FinnieRyan Finnie (@[email protected])
According to homeopathy, a 10X developer is a solution which contains a ratio of 1:10^10 developer to water, and is statistically unlikely to contain any molecules of original developer. It is used for curing developer.
Kæmpe-bjørneklo@tef I'm going for 0.5x programmer
attila@tef I was such a person before many onhere were born. My eyes are burnt out, my hands are f'ed, I have a pinched nerve in my neck from years of hunching over a fucking terminal or laptop or pile of circuits or whatever, I've worked in every language that was current in the day, worked on "leading edge" stuff, helped create the fucking web at Lycos, blah blah blah blah.
You know what it got me? Fucking nothing. Work Won't Love You Back is not just the name of a book you should read, it is the fucking truth.
Don't be me. If any manager ever gushes over you, take this as a sign you're doing it wrong.
Simon Brooke@tef not necessarily so. Some people at some periods in their lives can be extraordinarily productive in software.
I say this not as a recruiter but as someone who has built a lot of software in a lot of teams over the decades, and observed some exceptionally productive colleagues.
Often, they burn out, but not always.
Software is a very odd profession. In many ways it really is more like magic than like engineering.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7Or "Rock star".
Somebody to be abused until they're worn out.
Alex, the Hearth Fire@ShrikeTron Rock star programmer:
someone management treats as though all they want is a bowl of MnMs with the brown ones removed.
someone management treats as though all they want is a bowl of MnMs with the brown ones removed.
Joe W@ShrikeTron There is a programming language called Rock Star. Look it up, the talks about it are brilliant (Dylan Beattie, I think).
So we can all be even certified Rock Star developers.
And there's one Rock Star astronomer: Dr. B. May...
Cian O'Connor@tef
Often it's someone who churns out crappy, poorly engineered, code that kinda works.
Often it's someone who churns out crappy, poorly engineered, code that kinda works.
Thayer@tef Jesus is this still happening
𒀭 enkidu 🍤@tef 10x refers to the rate of tech debt, no?