Er, isn't it a bit of a strawman to suggest that people that talk about 100x engineers are talking about 100x productivity? Nobody I've met thinks that there a

Er, isn't it a bit of a strawman to suggest that people that talk about 100x engineers are talking about 100x productivity? Nobody I've met thinks that there are a set of people that believe there are "developers that write code 100x faster than other developers" but when people write comments on HN they act like this is a really common belief and only they are able to spot that it's not sane... Everybody that I've met considers technical prowess more along the lines of: the ability to write complicated code which others would find difficult to do, the ability to simplify a problem in order that it can be solved without complexity, the ability to optimize the performance of something in order that it uses less resources, the ability to come up with an innovative design that others wouldn't have thought of, the ability to explain technical ideas to their colleagues in a way that enables others to achieve more, the ability to balance short-term goals against a long-term plan, etc.