>A -10x engineer wouldn't be capable of creating anything from scratch, even if they did they would likely have issues getting buy in from the wider organizatio

>A -10x engineer wouldn't be capable of creating anything from scratch, even if they did they would likely have issues getting buy in from the wider organization for said code to go into production I have a two data points from a -10x engineer that say otherwise. They definitely do start things. The rest of us spend a decade making their mess a stable, workable system.