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I don't believe the anecdotes are fictional. Cherry-picked, perhaps. But these people surely exist.

I second this. By the time you're 4 years in almost anywhere you're an old timer. That plus being better than average at coding can easily make you 2-3 times as productive coding than average for your role.

You can either use that to get more done or get the time back. Lots of people choose the 2nd option. Especially if they can wfh.

I don't see any attributions or citations.

Even if we did have citations, didn't we have an article about how academic fraud is a massive business, just yesterday, because academics are flawed humans just like the rest of us?

All the virtuous skeptics here would just be calling the study flawed.

Unreal to me that this submission got flagged to death, and that most of the comments are "these type of people don't exist." I encounter all of these people on a daily basis

Realistic fiction is still fiction!

> academic fraud

I would be content with just a statement like "these are real people I personally know (anonymized)."

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