10X Programmer: I've paid a high price to achieve this (PHOTO)
belitsoft.com
belitsoft.com
Why would someone who's 10* better than their peers need to work double the hours?
I think most of us would accomplish 3 or 4 times more than we do given an additional 30+ hours of peace and quiet without distractions or external commitments, so I'm really asking if he's actually accomplishing more than any normal 1X developer would in his circumstances. I strongly suspect he's very fortunate to have a job and a family who support his choice to spend large amounts of time doing what he wants to do.
By another metric, someone with the experience and wisdom to solve the problem by integrating existing solutions and writing less code may hypothetically complete a task 10x faster than the former 10x programmer - effectively becoming a 100x programmer in comparison.
But it's very likely some managers won't recognize what the "100x" programmer has accomplished. He just made the task look "easy", and now he's going to have to fill his time with more tasks, and at review time might look mediocre in comparison to the fast but naive 10x programmer.
Pretty ironic that an article decrying the act of being a "10x Programmer" had such a sloppy developer working on the front end.
I don't know anything about Belitsoft, other than they have a blog written by two "Customer Success Managers" and 3 other dudes, and none of them use Chrome.
Oh, I see. It's a self-applied label.
A comment from Victor Volkman (going by username at least) at the end of the article (one of the people "interviewed" in the article):
"Although I'm flattered to have my comments included in this article. I must point out it was mined from several different Quora articles about unrelated topics. At no point was I contacted as to whether I wanted to participate in this article. I would have appreciated the courtesy of a "heads up". I'm not hard to find as they posted at least three of my social media contact links."
The author's response is
> Yes. It's true. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to share information about 10x programmers another way.... They are introverts and do not like to share their experience (in spite of fact that a lot of people want to here them).
Which I also think is pretty rude. There's a difference between an introvert and a mind reader. If you don't even ask someone, that's not introversion.
So.. am I supposed to envy this or what?
...and probably much more difficult to maintain.
Although, they don't need to in order for it to be an ad. But to be fair, content marketing is a better term. And a good piece of marketing at that. It tricked me (intentionally or not) into thinking those people worked there and if I was a client that might get me to buy.