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Discussion on: What are your thoughts on the whole 10x engineer viral discussion?

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Preston L. Bannister

First, if we are going to talk about "10x engineers" then we should start with the 1975 book from Fred Brookes: "The Mythical Man Month". That was the first mention of "super programmers" as a order of magnitude more productive.

Second, I am not going to muck through a Twitter thread. Sorry (not sorry).

Wrote about this before.
bannister.us/weblog/2014/multiplier
bannister.us/weblog/2015/programmi...

Yes, there is a difference. Not just in your individual work, but also in the halo effect of keeping your group on track and unstuck.