+10x engineers may be mythical, but -10x engineers exist.

To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week.

In this talk, we'll cover all the surefire ways to make your engineering organizations miserable and unproductive. Spoiler alert: it's not just engineers. Any dev or designer or manager can halt progress for an entire team.

We'll also cover practical ways to drop databases, sabotage AI models, waste time, shirk responsibility, and plant landmines in your code.