Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk?
by noir_lord on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:11PM
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Honestly I've never really concerned myself with the existence of 10x programmers or not, if they do exist I'm not one of them nor likely to ever be, As long as I'm more capable than I was this time last year I'm happy with that, it's kept programming challenging/interesting for 30 years.
My favourite recent feedback from a user was that "The system thinks the way I do and it reminds me when I've forgotten something".
The last couple of years I've branched out to putting much more focus on UX and trying to get ahead of what users are trying to get done and so it's nice to see positive feedback on that - It's funny but those little gentle touches that improve a users workflow mean more to them than all the underlying (or not) elegance of the code, it's a bit too easy to stare at a tree closely and miss the forest.
In a field as vast as ours you might be 10x at one one thing and 0.5x on something else entirely.
My favourite recent feedback from a user was that "The system thinks the way I do and it reminds me when I've forgotten something".
The last couple of years I've branched out to putting much more focus on UX and trying to get ahead of what users are trying to get done and so it's nice to see positive feedback on that - It's funny but those little gentle touches that improve a users workflow mean more to them than all the underlying (or not) elegance of the code, it's a bit too easy to stare at a tree closely and miss the forest.
In a field as vast as ours you might be 10x at one one thing and 0.5x on something else entirely.