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Re:Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusias... by jstanley on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:21AM (#36719777)
To write 30k lines of code in 3 weeks, you're averaging 2k lines/day. At 8 hour days, that's 250 lines/hour. 6 lines/minute. 1 line of code every 10 seconds, for 8 hours straight, for 3 weeks straight. It's definitely possible to type that fast, but I can't imagine what programming that way would feel like.
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Re:Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusias... by kazinator on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:26AM (#36719824)
You don't have to type that fast if you have a multiplying gearbox: IDE autocomplete, and copy-paste.
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