100x Developers

Re:100x Developers by krmmalik on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:58PM (#50456360)

Maybe 100x is a massive stretch for people who are already developers but for non-coders like me the difference is almost infinite because I went from not being able to code at all to now having something that can work. 0 to infinity essentially.

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Re:100x Developers by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:01PM (#50456397)

Well, 0 to 1 - but that's still infinity times more than you could do before.

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Re:100x Developers by rkuodys on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:09PM (#50456490)

Well, 0 to 0.1 - that's also infinity times more, if you do the math

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Re:100x Developers by Rendello on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:56PM (#50457797)

Either would be equivalent to a division by zero:

    0 * n = 1

Is the same as:

    n = 1 / 0

There's no n that multiplies with zero to make one (or any other non-zero value) so it's formally undefined, not infinite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero

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Re:100x Developers by nitwit005 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:12PM (#50457224)

These "10x developer" discussions are sort of meaningless unless it's discussing a comparison to a hypothetical typical professional software developer.

I've had some coworkers who appeared to have negative value. You were infinitely more productive then them before you could code. Doing nothing was superior.

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