The 10x programmer discussion feels a bit silly partly because it’s on the wrong scale. The real scale is more like this: In a specified amount of time, N, wha

The 10x programmer discussion feels a bit silly partly because it’s on the wrong scale. The real scale is more like this: In a specified amount of time, N, what is the conditional probability that the engineer, e, can design and code a solution which is (relatively) error free? This shifts into [0, 1] and is really asking the more important question.