Jonathan Blow

The fact that nobody even remarks upon this kind of thing, in fact everyone expects it, is a sign of how crazy bad productivity is in our “tech” companies and yet nobody sees this. It is straight-up crazy.

Very low productivity seems to be a surprising fact of the contemporary economy as a whole. Job descriptions and perceptions have in the service of patronage taken on a life of their own, quite divorced from actual production.

If I were to numerically estimate the productivity of the average Twitter engineer, it is something like 1/1000th of a reasonable level. It’s crazy, and way beyond what I would have previously classed as “low productivity”.

How many engineers did it take to build your games, Jonathan?

Depends which game you mean. Between 1 and 4.

Sounds like you’ve got some 10x engineers on your hands Seriously though, I’m always impressed how much indie game designers are able to do. Making a Twitter clone is literally a homework assignment in an intro web development class. What could all those other coders be doing?

I can't get over how they could make it even worse than it already was. I have little knowledge about html, but even with my rusty school knowledge I could do better in a day.