Sucked into interesting citation rathole on “myth of the 10x programmer” this morning. Good comment thread here: bit.ly/1k9yJ5F
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Oh man, Steve McConnell… I should reread his books, they had a big influence on me in the 90s.
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Seems like something we could study with public repos. Probably something I should've looked into at Apple.
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what is 10x metric? e.g. is a 10x runner: 10x faster, 10x more likely to win a race, or something else?
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Papers drill into details, but variously: implementation time, code size, time to accommodate spec changes, code performance.
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For an even more thorough (!) followup, try
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