No,I am not a 10x developer.But I can get things done
medium.comIF there are 10X engineers out there, would they not be charging at least 2X what regular engineers charge?
And where is the startup who is willing to pay even 1X what an engineer is worth?
The people going on and on about "hire the best of the best" all seem to be type-A Bros with MBAs who decided they should be CEO at 22 and confuse teenage testosterone for savvy business sense.
And of course these are also to the type that claim %2.5 in the company (5 year vesting 1 year cliff, natch) and a $80k salary is going to really make you rich when the company takes off.
If I was a 10X engineer (I've never seen one, in fact, I've never even met anyone who has met one) I wouldn't fall for that. Assuming I'm a 1X engineer, well, I'm already smart enough not to fall for that.
(So, my advice is, only take the risk of joining a startup if you're earning %33 of the equity-- eg you're a founder, and that's borderline- take %33 if the other two founders are stronger than you... otherwise try to cofound and take $50 of the pre-investment (or %51). My other advise is, the CEO should be an engineer. MBAs are cheep, young MBAs need guidance.)
I have yet to see some proof that 10x developers exist. I watched some videos of pair programming, and they are the closest thing I have seen to some sort of mastery of the stack. I think they are a myth.
How about the works of some famous programmers? Fabrice Bellard, Richard Stallman, etc.
But yeah I'd too like to see a list of videos about good programmers at work. Anyone have good recommendations or links to playlists? One I've been following is Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero series. He's quite good and easy to believe 10x average when he's not doing it with such an educational focus (and in 1 hour stretches on evenings).
Not sure about 10x but saw quite a bit of 10%.
I agree with you on this.