Other day on Twitter I ran into some retweets about "10x programmers" by some people who are not known for their coding, but rather complaining on Twitter. Since I followed them before I know partially their work history, or more like their brief stints, at different well known game tech companies.
This made me think about recent phenomenon of programmers who seem to be working on games with existing codebases their whole career, without significant contribution to any of those code bases, but who are very vocal and opinionated about things in those code bases.
Some traits of Yelp programmers are:
- Brief stints at different game companies.