Re:What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing
by eropple on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:05PM
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> he is arguably more successful while you have prematurely optimized
Sure--until he isn't. And that happens north of "senior".
I've had a lot of I-shaped people reporting to and taking direction from me in my career, and I'm not as deep at any one thing as many of them. But I'm deeper at a lot of things than most of those folks, and I can synthesize solutions to more complex problems because of them. Heck, things I learned writing games in my teens still come up on occasion twenty years later.
Sure--until he isn't. And that happens north of "senior".
I've had a lot of I-shaped people reporting to and taking direction from me in my career, and I'm not as deep at any one thing as many of them. But I'm deeper at a lot of things than most of those folks, and I can synthesize solutions to more complex problems because of them. Heck, things I learned writing games in my teens still come up on occasion twenty years later.