Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by bjornsing on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:50PM
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Yea, I’m surprised how rarely domain comes up in these discussions. And, as you say, it’s quite obvious that knowledge and raw intelligence can give you far more than a 10x advantage in some domains.
For an extreme example, imagine that the year is 1993 and the task is to write a program that produces a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem... My bet is that a certain “developer” named Andrew Wiles would have wastly outperformed a ”team” consisting of every other person on planet earth.
Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by wumms on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:28AM
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I'm with you on the domain topic; reading the extreme example I'd add repeatability of the performance (on a different problem of the same domain) as an equally important factor to distinguish the developer from the inventor.
For an extreme example, imagine that the year is 1993 and the task is to write a program that produces a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem... My bet is that a certain “developer” named Andrew Wiles would have wastly outperformed a ”team” consisting of every other person on planet earth.