>A 100x engineer exists in the context of a global company like Netflix. Because if a developer makes something just 1% better that translates into millions of

>A 100x engineer exists in the context of a global company like Netflix. Because if a developer makes something just 1% better that translates into millions of dollars of savings or increased revenue because on the margins just 0.001% increase of new subscribers is thousands of customers. This dumb developer multiplier has really taken on a whole bunch of different convenient meanings. The original idea had absolutely nothing to do with company success. It's not even useful now and it was questionable before.