News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer. Parent comment

Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by jimbokun on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:42AM (#28800489)
So the 10x programmer realizes you can accomplish the same goals with 1/10 of the book keeping, dependencies, interfaces etc. etc. etc.

In other words, the processes themselves place hard upper limits on the possible productivity.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by closeparen on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:48PM (#28803375)
One could make the argument that skipping the bureaucracy catches up with you in the long run.

Or maybe a small team of 10x programmers could really get away with it, indefinitely. But can you reliably staff enough of them, now and forever, to keep that going? For a business it is often better to have a codebase that scales with arbitrarily many average-quality engineers, than to be dependent on hiring miracles. Even small numbers of them.

[ Parent | on HN ]