A 10x Engineer's Unconventional Motivation

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A screenshot of a tweet from the user '10x'er' (@10x_er). The tweet, set against a black background, reads: 'if you’re ever feeling overwhelmed at work or with your own projects just remember there are people who have no desire to achieve anything intellectually and it’s our duty to be better than them'. This post is a satirical take on the 'hustle culture' and the '10x engineer' mythos prevalent in the tech industry. It mockingly frames elitism and a sense of superiority as a motivational tool to combat burnout or feeling overwhelmed. The humor resonates with experienced developers who recognize the absurdity and toxicity of such 'grindset' philosophies, which often ignore the systemic causes of professional pressure

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My motivation isn't being better than others, it's the fear that one day my CI/CD pipeline will achieve sentience and judge my commit history

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

My motivation isn't being better than others, it's the fear that one day my CI/CD pipeline will achieve sentience and judge my commit history
Anonymous

Whenever a self-proclaimed 10× engineer preaches nonstop hustling, I remember that even the Linux scheduler keeps an idle thread around - turns out a well-timed catnap prevents a kernel panic
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic '10x engineer' mindset - where the 10x refers to the multiplier on your therapy bills after internalizing this worldview. Nothing says 'healthy work culture' quite like turning existential dread into a competitive sport against imaginary intellectual inferiors
Anonymous

Ah yes, the classic '10x engineer' motivational strategy: when your imposter syndrome kicks in, just remember there are developers out there still using `var` in JavaScript. Suddenly that microservices migration doesn't seem so daunting - at least you're not the person who thinks 'git push --force' is a valid conflict resolution strategy on main
Anonymous

We're vectorizing across cores while they for-loop in single-threaded apathy - duty's just parallel superiority
Anonymous

Comparing yourself to people who don’t care is an eventually consistent KPI with awful P99s - and a guaranteed burnout retry loop
Anonymous

“Be better than them” is cute; the senior move is being better than my 2am self - by deleting his 10x “clever” abstraction and shipping 20 boring lines Ops will never page us about
@AmindaEU 3y

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1. @maximilionus 3y
  
  No way
@deerspangle 3y

https://youtu.be/4rrXR6n0RTY
@qwnick 3y

Cats suck, lol. Have only half of dog's neurons, untrainable for this reason. Only reason why they are popular is toxoplasmosis.
1. @hgusdhgudshug 3y
  
  bruh
2. @lab0rat 3y
  
  Why don't you get a chimpanzee then? They have more neurons that dogs and can be well trained
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  You don't keep chimpanzee cause they are too smart. They need to be entertained. Also, very aggressive and territorial, which is really dangerous if we are taking in the previous factor. They don't evolved to be human pet, too smart for that.
3. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  average dog fan
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  cope
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  seethe
4. @BriarOrc 2y
  
  I have both a cat and a kid mauler 3000, and cat is a fucking prick who bullies the shit of my dog, but I cabt stop loving him and will probably need to adopt another cat after that one
@RiedleroD 3y

anyway, I personally like cats better because they don't carry the risk of biting someone's face off. And I don't need to walk them every fucking day.
1. @RiedleroD 3y
  
  also, neuron count is irrelevant for actual intelligence, intelligence between dog breeds varies wildly, and cats are indeed trainable (and walkable, for that matter), it's just that nobody does it because, unlike a dog, they don't need to be trained.
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  why?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  what "why"? which one of these statements are you asking about?
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  last one
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  because cats can't bite your face off, even if you don't train them. Worst case they scratch you a bit.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  if you don't train a dog, depending on breed, they can kill you.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  ofc the smaller breeds can't - which is also why they're usually the ones being the most aggressive. Doesn't help that they're usually owned by people who want to get a dog, but don't want to put in the effort into treating it properly, so they're usually the absolute worst kind of angry gremlin.
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  This is ridiculous statement. Rescue dogs, search dogs (drugs, explosives), service pet's for blind people, flock control. They are doing actual work to help people. What cat's are usually trained for, if they can be trained?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  that's because there's special breeds for special purposes. Unlike cats, dogs have years and years of being genetically mangled by humans for our benefit. That just makes them slightly better at certain tasks.
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  "slightly better at certain tasks". You delusional. Tasks I stated almost unanimously done by dogs, and not cats.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  yes, because they're slightly better at it. What's your point?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  there's also the social aspect - you can train cats, but it's kind of weird to do so.
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  so what we have in result: 1. Dogs evolved to be with human. 2. Dogs are better at help to human. 3. Dogs are smarted than cats. 4. Dogs already doing a lot of work, that cats don't, and objectively help to make money and save lives. So yeah, cats suck in comparison. Like no freaking chance.
  
  @lab0rat 3y
  
  Cats are one of the reasons you don't need to migrate every week or two to gather food on new territories when it ends And it is really fun to see someone tries to proof that one of species is better then other one :)
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Cats are one of the reasons you don't need to migrate every week or two to gather food on new territories when it ends. Why? Dog's are literally the ones helping in flock control and guard
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Also, very strange argument in the end, different species are obviously better then than other, if you compare by a purpose. Dogs are better than cats as human pet. Cows are better than pigs in providing milk. Chimps are better than dogs at climbing trees. What's funny about that?
  
  @lab0rat 3y
  
  So, by what purpose we compare species?
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Human helper/pet of comparable size
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  I even gave a list of arguments above, you can derive purpose from the common denominator.
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  .
  
  @deerspangle 3y
  
  What if I just want a pet, rather than wanting a rescue dog, drug dog, service pet, or control a flock?
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  do you like cats? get a cat do you like dogs? get a dog it's literally that simple
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  do you like toucans? don't get one, they're not domesticated. same goes for literally every other wild animal. Don't get one.
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  and don't get fish. Your shitty little aquarium is obviously not enough and their entire live will be miserable. Plus, the novelty wears off and after the first week or so they're little more than expensive wall decoration
  
  @deerspangle 3y
  
  Big aquariums exist and can be good, but yeah, they're quite.. Decoration, rather than pet. Like, "can you pet them?" if no, not sure they're a pet
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  even aquariums that are considered big are usually too small for anything
  
  @endisn16h 3y
  
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  @NevermindExpress 3y
  
  💀
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
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  @endisn16h 3y
  
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  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  bruh
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  uhh I mean YnJ1aAo=
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y
  
  Also the main thing is we need a standardized “handled by the browser” dialog that select which cookies are allowed. The EU should do this instead
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  definitely
  
  @deerspangle 3y
  
  Pretty much
  
  @qwnick 3y
  
  Then that's other topic. You can want and get a cat, despite the fact that they suck in comparison to dogs. But that doesn't change the fact. Its like shitty old car that have sentimental value. Yes it's unsafe, costly to support, have less features, but you like it. But ofc in general it is suck in comparison
  
  @RiedleroD 3y
  
  sure, walk your dog an hour each day. because that's better aparrently
@Strangerx 3y

meow 🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛
@LonelyGayTiger 2y

What if I want to be cat and also a productive developer?
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  You have to plan in your calendar on which day you want to be which one
  
  @LonelyGayTiger 2y
  
  But why not always both?
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  Cats are lazy and arrogant
  
  @LonelyGayTiger 2y
  
  Only lazy when there isn't something they want. Realistically it sounds like the life of an open source dev.
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  Lmao
  
  @LonelyGayTiger 2y
  
  No school, no work, just meow meow and open source dev.
@Dark_Embrace 2y

fox
@RiedleroD 2y

fox
@Dark_Embrace 2y

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