alt Hacker NewsI think you are mixing up art, technical skills and productivity.
Put Terry Davis (again him) as senior manager at Apple, and see the result.
From my point of view, Terry has the same level and approaches as Fabrice.
It does not guarantee at all that he is going to be more productive than 100 engineers as you directly claim.
It makes them good in what they like to do (writing obfuscated or low-level code, or implementing from scratch from specifications) as art or creativity.
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lomase • today at 9:13 AM
Terry Davis had a mental dissease, you are a vile person.
I wish for you to one day have to face the same problems he did.
Thank you for introducing me to Terry Davis. I'm going to read more about him.
I am definitely not talking about art.
When I refer to 100x engineer, I'm referring to the impact that QEMU and FFmpeg have had on the world. I would be surprised if anyone who is familiar with these two projects would disagree that they have been highly impactful.