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		hyperpallium on Feb 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Challenging the myth of individual programmer prod... If you're smart enough to see a simpler way, there's easily 10x gains. If it's only because you know the "trick", you still get 10x gains.

bobm_kite9 on Feb 2, 2020 [–]

Exactly. I talk about this at https://riskfirst.org/Estimates

Knowing the way is 10x over finding the way.

But I think this is still an interesting piece of research, backing up a lot of what we expect empirically.

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