Format Book / Offline paper
Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Reliability Beats Brilliance

"Sam Altman compared 10X programmers with exceptional physicists who receive Nobel Prizes and exceptional writers who top bestseller lists."

Thompson reports Altman using physicists and writers as analogies for why unusually capable programmers should not be surprising.

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Source title Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Source authors Clive Thompson
Source year 2019
Confidence high
Importance mid
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