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goalieca on Aug 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or...

I’ve been around long enough to see that 10x developers aren’t writing 10x code.

JohnFen on Aug 5, 2025 [–]

I've been around long enough to notice that there is no such thing as a "10x developer". Not in any numbers greater than a rounding error, anyway.

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