[chrsw]

I don't think I was being disrespectful to anyone. I think Fabrice Bellard has done amazing work. I've been aware of him for years. I can only dream of being as prolific as he is.

My comments about 10x engineers have nothing to do with Fabrice Bellard. My comments are based on observations from what I've seen building systems as a student, individual contributor and technical leader across various organizations.

Between the two of us, I believe many people would agree with you about what a 10x should engineer do, how they should work and how they integrate to team dynamics.

I am impressed by your use of an LLM to gain better insight into who you were talking to.

[labrador]

Thank you for your thoughful response. Maybe I didn't say it clearly, but sometimes I like to acknowledge that we have geniuses in the programming field too, like a Ballard or a Jon Carmac. I enjoyed "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming" by Peter Seibel, published in 2009. I'm going to read it again.

I'm impressed by Claude Opus! I haven't programmed much since I retired so this was my first test. For fun I threw in that I wanted to use wxWidgets for a GUI interface, which it flawlessly did. It left out something I wanted, so I told it to do it again but this time with a button to clear the list box, also done perfectly. If I was still programming I'd be concered about my future prospects as a programmer! I'd probably move to designing programs, more of an architech role, although I'm sure AI will make in roads there too.