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   Robert Roskam (raiderrobert@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 10:35:19 JST Robert Roskam

   The stories about 10x engineers never include:
   • Adding meaningful test coverage
   • Updating outdated README sections
   • Mentoring junior engineers
   • Listening to burned-out coworkers
   • Improving on-call runbooks

   No glory in these things, but they're the ones you desperately want to keep.

   They plant trees they don't expect to sit under.

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     slotos (slotos@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 15:07:27 JST slotos

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     @raiderrobert Almost my entire career I work on code and systems 10x engineers left behind. These are often clever, usually ingenious, and almost always make me consider murder at least once.

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     Wesley Cook ⚡🚲 (wesley@theatl.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 15:08:06 JST Wesley Cook ⚡🚲

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     @raiderrobert When you're having ChatGPT write your code just remember that ChatGPT won't be the person getting woken up at 2AM when something breaks

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     sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 15:08:10 JST sabik

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     • Wesley Cook ⚡🚲

     @wesley @raiderrobert
     Unless they feed the alerts into ChatGPT and let agents loose on prod

     What could possibly go wrong

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     Funky Bob (funkybob@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 15:08:40 JST Funky Bob

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     @raiderrobert I'm far more in favor of the 1.1x engineer.

     That person who amplifies every developer about them by 10%.