10 Programmer Stereotypes

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[jerry]

All of those stereotypes have in common that they have to fix the family printer once in a while which leads other family members to think they have transcended and are no longer a mortal human being.

[detaaditya]

I don't think I fall into one of those. I'm an impostor syndrome programmer who always thinks I'm an impostor except when my code works

[Maclabhruinn]

I worked with a 10x programmer. He was amazing, his C code was super-efficient, easy to read, and he wrote it on the fly, off the top of his head. He was of Scandinavian background, tall, blond and handsome, with a huge gleaming smile like an actor in a toothpaste commercial. But! He was shy, spoke in a high squeaky voice, and giggled a lot. And he lived in the basement of his manager's house (yeah, really - he rented it from his manager). Super-helpful guy, he'd try to patiently explain why he hadn't used the Fast Fourier Transform routine from the library, because his own implementation was 10% faster ... "but of course, *you* should just use the library version" he'd say, without any awkwardness. He was such a nice bloke, but I came close to hanging up my keyboard and walking away from IT ... I felt like a fraud, by comparison.

[Paul-rsgd]

Old Jaded Guy here. I still remember the hex codes for many Z80 instructions. I thought that was a completely useless skill, but I now re-purpose them for passwords.

[Erin-bdjg]

" It's weird. They always travel in groups of five. These programmers, there's always a tall skinny white guy, a short skinny Asian guy, fat guy with a ponytail, some guy with crazy facial hair and then an East Indian guy. It's like they trade guys until they all have the right group." - Gavin Belson

[lenargilmanov]

One stereotype you missed is the aspiring game developer.
"Well, I just wanna make an FPS with open world, multiplayer and procedural generation, nothing fancy! Well, yeah, I only started learning unity last month, but how hard can it possibly be?!"

[papl]

I'm a woman who codes, who's sadly a goddamn minimalist. The least tech I have the better and I'm extremely suspicious of everything. I honestly think I got into this not because I like it but because I want to know everything I can to... Idk... Protect myself 😅

[dobreasamuel]

"99% accurate for about 12% of the time" fucking briliant

[ongamex]

You've missed "The Game Developer" - the guy who wanted to be a game developer. They've entered programming with the hope of making the next big MMO (or watever), however it took them 15 years to realize that games aren't made with just programming anymore and it takes usually more than one person to make a game. So they've evolved into a regular programmer that still has their own game engine rolling their entire life.

[Dr_Ainz]

Congrats to everyone in this comment section declaring themselves the 10x'er. You've found the optimal speedrun strat for informing everyone else you're the codefluencer.

[CurtisGingue]

There's a 10xer at my company. Dude is also the pianist for a traveling jazz band or something and I've heard him utter a total of 40 words I think. He's insanely fast and simply doesn't write bugs

[citywitt]

I hired someone thinking they were an introvert programmer. Turns out they’re a 10X. I rolled out of bed one morning around a week and a half after giving this guy a task. I saw a pull request containing 47 new classes, which turned out to be fully separated application domain interface and presentation layers for an API. Light refactoring my ass! 😂

[DerRumo]

I met a 10x-Developer in my company. He knows tons of programming languages very well (including assembly), speaks 3 nornal languages fluently and made 2 master degrees in 2 countries.
He won some coding challenges, where nearly no one finished all tasks and his professor gave his internet name a shoutout during studies, without knowing, that he was that. He has licenses for working on military projects and a flying license. This guy is sick. 😅

[mentoriii]

You forgot Imposter Syndrommer, the programmer that actually completes tasks in time but feels like a fraud and thinks that he faked his way into work

[NicholasDunbar]

You're forgetting the bohemian programmer who ferments vegetables and reads 18th century literature.

[use-hustlelucre]

Finally I am commenting on Fireship, love the sarcasm you give most of the time while explaining situation & yeah you seem to have raised above the normal understanding so you see things coming before they arrive …. Celebrate it 🎉🎉

[mezesadam]

Companies should categorise their teams according to these stereotypes, so it would be easier to filter out jobs.

[Tim_Small]

The first 10x coder I met was at my high school computer club in ~1989. He advised me to rewrite the hot paths in my BASIC program with inline assembly (actually a thing in Acorn BASIC). I later found out he single handedly ported Linux to the ARM processor architecture as a personal side project whilst at university. It took me about another 4 years to realise he was such an outlier that I might actually be good enough to get a job as a programmer myself after all...

[ihspan]

Very nice. Good stereotypes are such that you cannot escape them, and you can find a category you belong to. Well done.

[TheeSlickShady_Dave_K]

I smiled throughout this entire video
Excellent job!
99% accuracy,
12% of the time ha ha