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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (8 children)

what do they mean by "rockstart devs"? do they mean the people behind GTA?

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The article itself gives a prtty good description. It's a fairly common term, popularized over a decade ago, during the big tech startup boom, for a super-high-productivity developer. Someone who is just awesome at everything they do and can do everything, and do it all super quickly. I.E. a myth.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Well, it's not a myth at the 'do it super quickly', usually it also meant that a prototype would then need a lot of polishing and that was even before LLMs 'helped'

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think they are referring to what they currently call full stack devs, which back around 2007-2009 they called them rockstar devs. It is stupid.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    No, full-stack and rockstar were different.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah sure if you say so. I guess you could have a front end dev who was a rockstar, but usually it implied you could handle anything and work on any team.

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