Turning a youtube short into a full length video with mid roll ads is a 10x developer move

Turing a 30s Short into a 8min video. Now thats a 10x dev.

"It's my library" is the ultimate dev flex 😂

"10x more lines, 10x more bugs, 10x more jobs." Bars

The 'it's my library' bit reminded me of a friend of mine that went for a job interview and the guy asked him why he didn't have some specific Microsoft networking qualification or something. He said, "I wrote the exam for the qualification".

"If it ain't broke -- it can be." 🤣

i think the mac mini one was supposed to say that he optimized the performance in such a way they didn't need x amount of VMs in AWS anymore, and could run their entire stack on a single mac mini

The 10x dev really used the "skill issues" card when addressing code readability questions. This broke me since I can't really counter that. =))

"Can we make this readable?" "Charlie, we've been meaning to talk to you about your illiteracy"

This guy managed to create an 8-minute video out of a short.

SSL stands for Secret Spyware Layer

A 10x developer generates 10x fewer lines.

omg "it's my library" fucking killed me

"It is my library" That gave me PTSD soo hard. I worked with a co-worker who invented his own Actor library . . . in Java. As if there aren't enough actor libraries in Java. Of all the languages . . .

The backdoor joke is the one that i most related to😂

These 10x "engineers" who solve problems that didn't exist but they created for themselves are what companies like Adobe and other "we create problems" companies need.

I got emotionally bruised by the 10x explanation.

"It's my library..."

They also rewrite stuff because procrastination... its like... if you do clean your house instead of actually important tasks which you have assigned to sprint ... you would never do it because you hate cleaning house, but you just dont want to do whats actualy priority and at least he can say "I did something why so mad bro" xD

The 10x engineers flip a coin every time they boot. It it's heads they will make your day in an impressive fashion. If it's tails, they wreck your day impressively.

Taking a short and making a whole video, welcome to youtube prime!

The senior on my workplace, is a 0.1x engineer... All the solutions he cooks up, are somehow te buggiest and most jank I've ever seen in my life! But he's the longest working dev at our company, so management always listens and trust his approach. I usually end up rewriting code over the weekend, to make things actually work for a change...

A 10x Engineer is a person you put into a place where ought to be 10 people but you just leave that single guy there and let him do his thing.

"The dev that's really fast and lacks wisdom"

I once shrunk a module down by + 50% whilst adding new features and validation to boot, sometimes things just need to be rewritten.

"It's my library" hahahaha

10x engineers can be terrifying, but this hahaha

That refactor over the weekend just unearth some bad memories from the past

Ladies and gentleman, we have officially found IRL genius Tom!

you gotta watch the full video!

dude rlly turned a yt short into a full video

That's the thing with 10x engineers - they 10x the parts you don't want them to 10x too :D

Flip, you’re amazing, making us all look better than we are.

your 10x chart is amazing

In past jobs, I worked with people who were definitely 10x engineers. They were insanely productive, and as one person provided more value than entire teams do at my current job. Their code wasn't the prettiest, but it got the job done. And they were the only person that needed to read it, so it was fine.

Based prime. Love your videos

10x engineers are the friends we made along the way

The full vid has so many more jokes lol

Perfect ending xD

Your story in the middle with your boss handing you some code and then changing it out from under you is something I’ve dealt with like 3X in this year working at my new company. The issue is that he’s also an amazing engineer.

I love the creator of the original video, I've personally agreed with most of the videos they have put out from the LaTex and PHP videos to the Senior Postdoc Python video (that one I showed to a couple current PhDs and it gave them a good chuckle). Seriously underrated channel.

Our product owner started programming because our team is too small and there is a lot to do. We also have a guy that solved like 5 problems a day but the code was in a state of one character from completely broken afterwards. His speed dropped and the quality improved now.

I’m working on a thing that uses a lot of tests so this is prime content.

4:28 Imagine that you find out that one of your employees is asking twitch streamers for tech support 😂

Worked with a dude like this once... I don't think he ever actually finished a single project... Got things to 60% pretty quick though

7:07 that delivery was friggin *perfect* XD

Sometimes 10x is about an attitude, enthusiasm. It is always a joy for me to work with legacy code and refactor some of it to remove duplications and enhance maintainability which sometimes results in 2k+ code line changes but it is still better than having 800+ line code files with duplications, where a single change can lead to bug creation in many other places. Also test addition is a part of this process. No intense thinking and engineering required, so one can even drink coffee and listen to some Vivaldi music while refactoring. Just find code duplications, extract into functions, repeat, all while using clean code patterns.

Not sure if it's just me, but I keep hearing literal crickets? Great content though!

Love you prime

Oof 360° video, skipped over that in the live. 360° emotional damage

the video end xDDDDDD

the long version is out

I feel like I was attacked this whole video and I'm blaming the ADHD once again

What monitor is that?

This is so funny😂😂

I had a coworker rewrite over the weekend then immediately go on vacation and then it all crashed and my boss came looking for me... I was like "idk I don't even have proper access to deal with this. He literally just changed it and didn't explain how to use it."

Riding with my gf down the road on a sunny warm day with the window rolled down, Watching two of my fav KZfaqrs in one place cracking up.. man.. life is nice right now. Little moments :)

the name is the primeagen

What if the real 10x engineer is the friends we make along the way ❤

There's an expanded 5 minute version of this short too😂

2:02 because the weekend is only 2 days long. That is literally the reason, btw - scope.

that graph seemed like a slight at TypeScript

People often shit on “10x engineer” because they are coping on their lack of skill so they swap in a normal engineer who is an self-important as if that’s what was meant by 10x when it really wasn’t. They just don’t want to have the conversation about how some people really are 10x (if not more) better than others. Hard to face that reality.

Prime watches 3 minute video: 26 minutes Prime watches a short: average length long form video

TS - trust and safety 🙏🏽

over the years I got convinced, that the real 10x developer, is one with experience and freedom to design stuff from scratch and break everything

the guy looks like Magnus Carlsen

Ah, it doesn't have the part where he says he rewrote it in rust and then it didn't have any performance increase so he rewrote it back.

4:07 Not really, though. Not as a general rule. I have worked with a ton of developers who (maybe because they can't type) squeeze as much functionanity as they can into one liners, ignore easy wins with names, etc. and when pressed they answer "it works".

4:00 - I legit had a manager once who got on to me for not writing comments the way he wanted.

I watched the first short earlier today

Sounds like prime's "coworker" used to be told "your code is not readable" a lot at Netflix LOL, he always brings this argument up.

The absolute worst was an engineer I worked with about 9 years ago. He would do complete refactors on Thursday until late at night. Check it in in an uncompilable state and say on Friday morning... "I'm leaving early can you (speaking to me and an intern that I worked with) get the code compiling? I got it most of the way working, you can see what it's supposed to do. Just get it to the state where it builds and runs." And then the guy would leave early with the project in a broken state. Oh and the same guy invited me to lunch once and while having lunch casually and with no apologies dropped into conversation that his grandfather was a founding member of the Texas chapter of the KKK. Ivan Jones.... what a fucking tool.

My man knows how to turn a one minute video into 9 mins video😄

At once the funniest and most painful of all your videos....

Digital Ocean... You know that's it BOOM! :) OCEAN SAILING!

I review comment a bug in my own PR instead of pushing a fix, since I havent come up with a fix for 4 days and not looking at the code. I was just hoping it would magically show up in my brain.... But hasnt yet.

There's a longer version of it.

Shit.... I'm that rewrite guy.

8x youtuber

Back in my course, our last 4h was showing our final coursework, a betting site. Guess who was "reworking s**t" while others were presenting their work because... some stuff just wasn't "orthogonal" (don't ask). But it worked, to full spec, no bugs, no crashes, just worked. All but Facebook login, which i didn't understand why, as it worked ok at home. And the examiners just grinned instead of telling me FB was blackholed in the LAN. But... the only reason i did it was because i had the dubious honor of having had to do all the "group work" by myself as there was no one to pair me with (great planning). So i was the systems architect, systems engineer, front end dev, backend dev, DBA, DevOps, etc... changes were easy because i knew were all the pieces were. tldr: you can do "refactor over the weekend" nonchalantly if you're on your own. NOT if you're in a team OR you have people dependent on your work (library code).

So you've worked with Richard Hendricks?

i dont think you realise how many of us tortured souls had flashbacks to that person in the team at some timeline in our dev career - i need time to recover - 🤟

Readable is DEFINITELY a thing!! It is not cramming as much as possible on 1 line. Its putting comments and using white space & comments to group things in organized chunks. You shouldn't need to be familiar with the code to read it. HS students code only thinking about whether it works or not. Professionals think about error handling, logging & readability/maintainability in addition to the absolute bare minimum of making it work right in a happy path scenario (a HS students *only* concern)

Bugs are caused by testing - The Tachyon Reverse-Temporal Theory of Bug Creation

1/10x engineers, raise your hand!

That's why you need a responsible senior tech lead to do code reviews

why do I hear crickets throughout this video?

Wait until you work with an 11x one. They drop acid and code and play guitar ..

real 10x engineer turn short into long

I'm the guy that does the weekend rewrites...in Javascript

The real 10x engineer is ths cricet in the background 😛

0.1x engineer.

7:25, I once made a nasty bug by refactoring 4 lines / 2 cmds to 1 line / 1 cmd. They were all made by ternary operators, nested or not. I mentally checked "every" possible case. It ended up being correct in 6 of 8 cases, as long as I remember. It was hard to catch, because 1) it was hard to made it appear (seldom seeing, but never gone), 2) it appeared after tons of things happened _(reproducing its scenario could produce a false positive, regarding to its source)_ , 3) and I had a false lead/clue, which took a time to realize that. Hard to test, happen and promising false clues. Automated tests would catch that right at its birth. But there's a question that doesn't want to silence: if automated tests are necessary for every bit of refactoring, would them in the end taking more time than catching a bug when it finally happen?

I rewrite over the weekend hah

This video feels like a personal attack and now I'm deeply offended. Now I have to try to forget about it at a strip club.

“Rewrites over the weekend” - my director. Merge to staging, I rebase, and things behave differently. Bummer.

Real programmers use C++, but that's not hip enough to make the big bucks and these days they want 5+ years experience at least.

can a 10x devs KISS?

Rewriting the whole thing over the weekend. Isn't that basically every React project you've inherit *ever*? You can spend 10 days trying to understand how someone did it... or just rewrite the whole thing over the weekend.