Comment by MontyCarloHall
19 hours ago
Whenever someone says there's no such thing as a 10x programmer, I point them to Fabrice and they usually change their mind.
19 hours ago
Whenever someone says there's no such thing as a 10x programmer, I point them to Fabrice and they usually change their mind.
People only deny the existence of such people based on their own ego, believing that no one could possibly be worth 10x more or produce 10x more than they can. Those who have seen those people know full well these people exist.
It's kind of crazy it ever became some accepted world view, given how every field has a 10xer that is rather famous for it, whether it be someone who dominates in sport, an academic like Paul Erdős or Euler, a programmer like Fabrice or Linus Torvalds, a leader like Napoleon , or any number of famous inventors throughout history.
Perhaps closer to 100x actually.
You can call 1000 averaged programmers and see if they can write MicroQuickJS using the same amount of time, or call one averaged programmer and see if he/she can write MicroQuickJS to the same quality in his/her life time. 10X, 100X or 1000X measures the productivity of us mortals, not someone like Fabrice Bellard.
If you're in a room with 100 physicists and Feynman, the accumulated wisdom of Feynman is your best bet.