Do 10% of developers do *nothing*?

Описание: Are 10% of developer really "ghost engineers" who pretend to work? Are engineers in big tech just lazy? Do Stanford MBAs just need to be stopped?

Chapters
0:00 What is a ghost engineer?
1:02 Lazy techies + DIML influencers
2:52 Do SWEs in big tech do nothing?
3:18 Are one line code changes real work?
4:25 What’s the deal with this “research paper”
5:29 Measuring SWE productivity via code
6:19 SWE work beyond coding
7:17 Why are SWEs even being targeted?
8:14 This “research” is anti worker
9:13 Crying + apologizing

Merch
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Sources
Twitter thread: https://x.com/yegordb/status/18592907...
404media coverage: https://www.404media.co/are-overemplo...
The research team’s website: https://softwareengineeringproductivi...

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