Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
by CRConrad on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:36AM
(#28836744)
>> In one analogy it could be the 10x bricklayer. One who does a well defined job 10 times faster than the others.
> Software as brick-laying gets a laugh out of me.
I think that may have been precisely GP's point: The quantitatively-exact-sounding "10x" could possibly be used about an easily-measured well-defined task like brick-laying (which usage could be confirmed by the occurrence of variants like "I'm actually a 12x [or only a 9x] bricklayer"), but not about less well-defined / measurable crafts like programming.
> Software as brick-laying gets a laugh out of me.
I think that may have been precisely GP's point: The quantitatively-exact-sounding "10x" could possibly be used about an easily-measured well-defined task like brick-laying (which usage could be confirmed by the occurrence of variants like "I'm actually a 12x [or only a 9x] bricklayer"), but not about less well-defined / measurable crafts like programming.