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		mariusor on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of en... I've never understood 10x to be an exact quantitative attribute. Treating it like that is missing the point in my opinion. Extreme outliers can exist in any field.

drewcoo on July 14, 2023 [–]

But it's an analogy. For software engineers. About software engineers.

It's going to be abused and stretched and misread and taken overly literally until it breaks.

Even a 0.1x engineer can do that, though it may take a little longer.

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