[chakkepolja]

Even after seeing some programmers like bellard and DJB achive 100x of that of a normal programmer, random web developers on hacker news and reddit continue doing mental gymnastics to prove all programmers are equal, maybe doing webshit in react is, after all, above science.

[Zababa]

I think the case of Fabrice Bellard is one where working on building the tools instead of the product gives you a way bigger reach. For example, if you're doing webshit react in a company, if you spend time automating the testing infrastructure instead of producing yet another feature, you'll have a disproportionated impact compared to the person that worked on the feature. Of course Fabrice Bellard is still way better than the average developer, by a very large margin. But you can improve your "output" without getting better, just by picking the right problems.

[havegl]

You are no longer allowed to be a 10x in public. In some OSS projects you have to repeatedly humiliate yourself so the gang of 0.5x programmers running the show don't stage a struggle session.

It is to some extent a product of the Maoist cultural revolution we are in.