These days it is very politically incorrect to say that someone is 10X. The LinkedIn is full of profiles with people whose job titles with words like “leader”,

These days it is very politically incorrect to say that someone is 10X. The LinkedIn is full of profiles with people whose job titles with words like “leader”, “mentor”, “coach”, “team player”. The only thing that is usually missing in their resume is ability to write code or do things that requires actual technical skills. These people eventually show up as your CTOs, architects and they want their people to be team player, mentor, coach, leader - everything other than actual technical work. These types usually hate the concept of 10x devs and deny their existence. I think they have successfully relabeled 10x devs as “brilliant jerks” and “social assholes”. We sometime forget that our industry in not made by these so called LinkedIn mentors, coaches and leaders but likes of Steve Wozniak, Brenden Eich and Ken Thompson.