Post #3527223
2026-07-02 03:24 UTC
“The great men and women of science to whom prestige accrues are simply too few to account for the gigantic effects they are supposed to produce.” – Bruno Latour, /Science in Action/ (1987), p. 166. (Related: https://blog.oddly-influenced.dev/2026/05/17/the-heros-journey-views-of.html)
The same might be true of 10X programmers. (Which is not to say that they don’t exist. I’ve met some.)
Disclaimer: I do have what I’d like to think is a cultural American bias toward “the little guy.”
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@ducky@mstdn.ca 2026-07-02 05:03
@marick@mstdn.social I take umbrage with the idea of a 10x programmer. As I talked about in https://blog.webfoot.com/2008/02/06/vandev-talk-summary/ , the slowest programmer isn't 1/10th or 1/100th the speed of the best programmer, they are *infinitely* slower. I am infinitely faster than a walrus, for example.