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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by gitfan86 on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:15AM (#34453409)
The big difference is that the Mechanic has to manually do that for every single customer, where a software 10xer identifies a crazy hard bug once and fixes it for all 10000 customers at once.

And that is where the finances come in. Why pay a 10x mechanic 300k/year if he is only going to generate 40k more in revenue than someone who would work for 90k/year. Where a 10x SRE/Cloud Operations person could actually save you 300k/year

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by zmxz on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:19AM (#34453462)
If only the post you commented on mentioned a single word about compensation and comparison between IT or automotive industry..

It's the analogy. Also, your numbers sound entirely made up.

I would not hire SRE to save me 300k a year, I'd hire them to make me 600k a year.

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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by john-radio on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:18AM (#34454224)
900K a year or I walk!
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by setgree on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:19AM (#34453455)
And a person who designs cars can eliminate the flaw that caused the problem.
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Re:The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer (2020) by turtleyacht on Saturday January 21, 2023 @11:15AM (#34467421)
Mechanics would have to file tickets with the car design team :)

In software, we don't yet have a profession of Maintenance Engineers who can put up a shingle and strace/kernel debug opaque software experiences as a regular "practice."

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Upon reflection, I realize free and open-source software fills this slot in a sense.

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