You can say the same of artists...there is certainly a huge difference between the best and the worst. That's taking to broad of a view IMHO. You aren't, gene

You can say the same of artists...there is certainly a huge difference between the best and the worst. That's taking to broad of a view IMHO. You aren't, generally, going to hire a Picasso. Picasso will be off being Picasso. You also aren't going to hire Greg, the guy who took one art class in middle school who just decided last month that he's going to be a artist. What we are really talking about is the 'artist of the line'. Accessible professionals. Yes, there is still a spectrum there but it is more in the 10x territory. And some are 10x for very particular work and some for others. What gets me with the whole 10x thing is the idea that a 10x developer in one particular circumstance can be dropped in another and be expected to perform at that same level. That's not how it works.