Sucked into interesting citation rathole on “myth of the 10x programmer” this morning. Good comment thread here: bit.ly/1k9yJ5F
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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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Very interested in the “time to deal with spec changes” one b/c of idea that 10x faster devs just write 10x sloppier code.
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wondering if a good programmer may be less likely to implement a bad spec…
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eg good spec distills app into simple and consistent patterns which can be well abstracted by a good programmer…
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…and spec changes to a bad design are more readily handled by bad programmer because they make no attempt to abstract…
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Yeah, that’s interesting! You can read more about the specs given in the papers—maybe big enough problems to tell.
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any spec beyond “make something useful” is part of programming and determines how well the patterns can be expressed
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