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Re:100x Developers by apical_dendrite on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:09PM (#50456497)
My company has a huge problem where a junior engineer will complete tasks very quickly and appear to be extremely productive, but they're just hiding tech debt that has to be cleaned up later. That clean-up doesn't get factored into any assessment of the original developer's productivity. Fixing the system once it's been working and has live data takes a lot longer than it would have taken to build it right the first time.

For example: storing an API key in a plain text JSON preferences object that many different parts of the system read and return to users. Determining if there was a breach, figuring out who to talk to at the third-party company to get the key rotated, etc takes time. The person doing that work doesn't look very productive because they aren't shipping a lot of code that impacts customers. The developer who put the API in plain text looks like a 10x engineer because they shipped a customer-facing feature really quickly.

Re:100x Developers by krenel on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:31PM (#50457436)
> My company has a huge problem where a junior engineer will complete tasks very quickly and appear to be extremely productive, but they're just hiding tech debt that has to be cleaned up later.

You're so right. Measuring wrong the impact, without taking into account incidents, tech debt, and so on. A classic.