Citations:10x developer
English citations of 10x developer
- 2016, Yevgeniy Brikman, Hello, Startup[1], O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
- Elite athletes practice for many hours per day to develop their abilities. If you aspire to be an elite programmer, you should, too. Try to see 10x developers as role models that motivate you to code more, just as a child may see Michael Jordan as a role model who motivates them to shoot hoops more.
- 2018, Zed A. Shaw, Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way[2], Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
- An IDE is typically tied to one single language because it does advanced introspection on the source and provides you with shortcuts to write the code. You then don't have to remember anything and can just CTRL-Space your way through most any project. This is awesome when you have 100 other 10x developers who are writing more technical debt than you can handle, but it's a terrible feature when you're trying to learn.
- 2019, Zsolt Nagy, Soft Skills to Advance Your Developer Career, Apress, →ISBN, page 4:
- What does a 10x developer do? Solve complex problems ten times as fast? Who notices that? Take architectural decisions that prevent their team from burning ten times as much money as the cost of the project? How do you measure decision quality?
- 2021, Brett A. Becker, “What does saying that 'programming is hard' really say, and about whom?”, in Communications of the ACM[3], volume 64, number 8, Association for Computing Machinery, →ISSN, page 28:
- The belief that programming is hard is not confined to academia. The concept of the “10x developer”—the elusive developer that is 10 times more productive than others—serves to communicate that programming is hard and few can be good at it.
- 2021, Jeremy Adamson, Minding the Machines[4], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- The fabled 10x developer can be a great help if they are able to work effectively with stakeholders, but often that productivity comes with a 10x ego as well.