Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
by karaterobot on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:04PM
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I would argue that that's not the case for most programmers, at least not in the sense of developing a new p2p protocol, or a fast inverse square root algorithm. Would John Carmack code, e.g. a checkout system for an iPhone app 1000x faster than most programmers? I doubt that.
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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
by nickelpro on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:25PM
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The interface he produced for that checkout system, the naming conventions he chose, the nature of state encapsulation, the testability of it? Yes, I believe Carmack would produce _better_ code in all those things than the median programmer every time.
There is much more to 10x than how many lines of code you can produce. A monkey on a keyboard can type faster than Carmack but productivity is not assisted. No one is arguing that a 10x programmer is more efficient by way of swift fingers.