I have 0 doubts there are 10x programmers (or rather 1.0 compared to lots of 0.1 ones). In fact I’ve seen lots of negative productivity.
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@stilkov this is missing the point, though.
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@janl Is it? How so?
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— @stilkov …has access to the same support that can turn them into a 10x person. To date, that support is for very privileged groups only.
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@janl In fact I’ve seen very privileged 0.1 programmers. And 10x programmers from very poor/underprivileged circumstances
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@stilkov I’m sure you have. And you also have done a course in choosing representative, quantifiable samples for your experiments.
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@janl Of course not. All personal, very subjective experience. I don’t think I’ve claimed otherwise.
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@stilkov you haven’t, no worries. People have researched this stuff properly.
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@janl Really? I haven’t seen any proper research on programmer productivity, ever. In fact I think it’s quite impossible.
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@stilkov you may want to look into that :)
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@janl pointers would be appreciated

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@stilkov they are easy to find.
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@janl Studies are easy to find. All that I saw so far were fundamentally flawed. Let me know if you consider one good, I’d be interested.
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