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		jstanley on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of en... To write 30k lines of code in 3 weeks, you're averaging 2k lines/day. At 8 hour days, that's 250 lines/hour. 6 lines/minute. 1 line of code every 10 seconds, for 8 hours straight, for 3 weeks straight. It's definitely possible to type that fast, but I can't imagine what programming that way would feel like.

kazinator on July 14, 2023 [–]

You don't have to type that fast if you have a multiplying gearbox: IDE autocomplete, and copy-paste.

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