It is depressing that people are happy to just throw anecdotal evidence around without even defining what metric they multiply by 10x or 100x. There is some li

It is depressing that people are happy to just throw anecdotal evidence around without even defining what metric they multiply by 10x or 100x. There is some literature on it. For example, this blog post [0] contains some references. I have only read Peopleware. It says 10x is the difference from worst to best in terms of time and number of defects across a few hundred programmers. Also interesting: Within the same organization, there was only a difference of 30%. This means the environment is much more important than the skill, experience, or personality of a programmer. I cannot find any studies after 2000. Most of the data is even older. The Peopleware data is from Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, and C. [0] https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-software-developers-and-teams-the-origin-of-10x/ https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-...