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  > considered a 10x developer
The 10x developer never existed. You're telling me these people are doing a year's worth of work in 1.2 months? Seriously?! 10x?! In a year you can probably learn to program from scratch and participle if you're working 8hrs per day 5 days a week

We need to stop exaggerating so much. A 2x dev would be insane! A 1.5x dev does a year's work in 8. A 1.1x dev does it in 11. Saving a whole month itself is a massive amount of money saving. Our "10x" devs are really 1.1x and I'm not sure why we see that as anything less than wildly impressive.

Can we stop exaggerating so much?

parent godelski 4 months ago

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