I have been writing JS fulltime for major corporate employers for 13 years, but have been writing web technologies in some capacity for about 24 years. The fri

I have been writing JS fulltime for major corporate employers for 13 years, but have been writing web technologies in some capacity for about 24 years. The friend at the bar anecdotes you are talking about are my own personal observations doing this work. It really doesn't take much in this technology space to be a 10x (or much more) developer. It really boils down to don't do stupid things and don't wait for dependencies to do your job for you.