I'm a 10x engineer - under perfect conditions. But I think focusing on this work is wrong-headed. As noted in the article, making 5 other developers twice as

I'm a 10x engineer - under perfect conditions. But I think focusing on this work is wrong-headed. As noted in the article, making 5 other developers twice as efficient is roughly equivalent. The difference is that I can't sustain a 10x rate (I do a lot of "research programming" where I'm probing a domain rather than producing production code), while there's a good chance that training other developers will translate into a 2x (or better) increase in the team's productivity.