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Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars by nopinsight on Sunday July 13, 2025 @10:45PM (#44555959)
impact != story points
Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars by humanrebar on Monday July 14, 2025 @06:41AM (#44558483)
Yeah, story points approximate effort, so it's fairly impossible to be 10x on those.

JIRA has a notion of business value points, and you could make up similar metrics in other project planning tools. The problem would then be how to estimate the value of implementing 0.01% of the technology of a product that doesn't sell as a standalone feature. If you can accurately do that, you might be the 100x employee already.

Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars by harimau777 on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:17AM (#44558786)
I agree, but my point is that 1000x is clearly hyperbole. Certainly there are people who are more productive or impactful, but not 1000 times more. That's particularly true since programming (like most human endeavors) is largely a team sport.