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Do 10% of developers do nothing? (m.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m one of those who “do nothing”, if you’re measuring by commits and lines of code.

as an architect, I spend way too much time doing diagrams and presentation
as a point of engineering escalation, I spend a lot of time researching things no one can figure out
as a stickler for code quality, I like nothing more than those days where my lines of code are negative

On the other hand, if you go by the amount of code I indirectly effect with best practices, code quality, appsec, and assisting developers, I affect all of engineering (hundreds)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

And that's obvious from the very beginning, when you look at how human collectives work. You never can determine who really does nothing.

Even if we imagine this is somehow possible, there are social predators, as in psychopaths or at least scheming jerks, in every one of them, who don't want a transparent structure of responsibility. And there's the majority of us who rely on their kind to handle the social dynamics we don't want. And there's need for some stability.

But all that aside, engineers would be the last group in my list to check for people "doing nothing". Almost everyone eager to discuss engineers "doing nothing" would fit higher there.