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If the 10x thing was true we’d all be on iOS 24 and the typescript Go rewrite would have been done months ago.

But of course that’s ridiculous.





Speed of shipping software and pace of writing code are different things. Shipping software like iOS has a <50% component of programming so Amdahl's law caps the end-to-end improvement rather low, assuming other parts of the process stay the same.

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> and the typescript Go rewrite would have been done months ago.

10x is intended to symbolize a multiplier. As Microsoft fired that guy, 10 × 0 is still 0.

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