Back in 2000 we used the term 10x Engineer primarily to mean Full Stack Engineer. In other words, you needed to hire 10 people with individual skill sets to ma

Back in 2000 we used the term 10x Engineer primarily to mean Full Stack Engineer. In other words, you needed to hire 10 people with individual skill sets to match one Generalist who understood the entire stack. The term appears have morphed and skewed over the years. Regression toward the mean has shifted the expectations for "average" programmers.