Stressful. If you work faster than your colleagues, you are making them look bad and that pisses them off. If you slow down to their speed, they notice you brow

Stressful. If you work faster than your colleagues, you are making them look bad and that pisses them off. If you slow down to their speed, they notice you browsing Hacker News all day and that pisses them off too. If you once push a fix that crashes the live server you'll never hear the end of it even if everyone else does it twice per week. Meetings with project managers get awkward: "You were working on five features this week and have implemented them all? Including test cases? Wow, impressive!" "And how is it going for you, [name redacted]? Still struggling with that bug from three weeks ago?" "Your kid was sick so you haven't had the time to work on it?.... Let's reassign that bug..." Then there are the young and incredibly talented but not very practical developers (5x developers?). Those who spend two years developing their own in-house cms for the company because Joomla didn't have that one specific feature they wanted. Tell them that the feature exists in out-of-the-box Wordpress installations? And don't get me started on the stupid but widespread "if you are that good at coding there must be something wrong with you" prejudice... Fwiw, I don't think we as a community should use the term 10x developer. It should be "a developer ten times stronger than the average developer." Because any developer can increase their strength tenfold with enough practice.