Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth
by tracker1 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:49PM
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I generally consider myself a 5x coder... I usually spend about 1/3 the day reading/learning and another 1/3 experimenting... only about 1/3 of a typical day will I be on-task, and usually still outpace my peers. This last 2-week cycle, I literally did all the assigned work, and refactored a few things that annoyed me in one caffeine fueled night.
I used to do design/graphix/ux work... that always interested me. Programming pays better, and I have a talent for it. I have spent time learning patterns, etc, but not through a formal education. I tend to just see a good way forward... creating discoverable code along the way. I find a lot of the time, the formal patterns tend to just make things more complicated than they need to be.
Just my own take on things. I'm kind of lazy in a good way. I have spurts where I will do a crazy amount in a short time, and those where I'm closer to coasting. Like many/most creative types, it varies.
Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth
by RHSman2 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:10AM
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This has helped me to understand this very problem (which I didn’t really know had a name)
Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth
by travisgriggs on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:22AM
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Uh, you left out passionate lego builders (AFOL). I’m adding it for you.
You actually hit this nail quite on the head with the example. The "10x engineers" get a lot of their "10x"-ness from creativity - most I've met are cartoonists, painters, musicians, writers, cooks - artists in general that love software as a way of expressing themselves and earning good money. The beautiful bits of code you get after are usually there because the starting point is "create it" not "implement existing solution/pattern".