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I think the best inspiration to take here is that the best way to write a compiler in 40 days is to first write one in 400 days.

From the first entry:

> Implementing these features is easy because this is the second time for me.

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And thus, the 10X programmer.

This is quite well said. It never occurred to me that 10x programmer is just the programmer who has already written code that grappled with the ideas that matter most. By your fifth compiler, all the basics seem easy.

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