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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 01:36:47 JST clacke

   Paraphrasing a friend:

   "People talk about 10x developers. Some also talk about 0x developers. But almost nobody brings up the -1x developers."

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     Talin (talin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 07:09:10 JST Talin

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     @clacke I have known such. There was a guy back in 1988 who, the more he worked on the code, the more damage he did.

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     CausticMango (causticmsngo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 07:09:18 JST CausticMango

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     • Cat Hicks

     @clacke There's a fair amount of overlap between folks that call themselves "10x devs" and those who are actually "-1x devs".

     @grimalkina writes about this.

     https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114240887526774469

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 07:09:19 JST clacke

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     • Raktapadma
     @raktapadma It's only called sabotage if it's on purpose.
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     Raktapadma (raktapadma@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 07:09:21 JST Raktapadma

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     @clacke What -1x developers would do is sabotage, right?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 21:32:54 JST clacke

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     • Cat Hicks
     • CausticMango

     @causticmsngo If they are 10x producers of lines of code, that's definitely at risk of being in -1x territory.

     @grimalkina