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Re:The Burnout Machine by ayewo on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:56AM (#43433732)
I’ve heard a similar jobs classification but in 3 buckets:

1. builders (maps to reasoning)

2. fixers

3. maintainers (maps to map lookups)

Companies are often a mixture of these 3 classifications. How they skew often depends on maturity (startup vs enterprise).

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Re:The Burnout Machine by ActorNightly on Friday March 21, 2025 @03:40PM (#43440057)
In terms of mental process, whenever someone is performing a task, they are looking up information on either directly how to do the task, or are running some thought process (i.e simulation of the world) to figure out some unknown.
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