I have worked with more than one 10x developer. They didn’t work harder than anybody else. However they consistently made everybody in the company way more prod

I have worked with more than one 10x developer. They didn’t work harder than anybody else. However they consistently made everybody in the company way more productive by simplifying things and resolving issues that nobody else could resolve. One of them single-handedly maintained a very large complex C++ library used by other teams. And he had zero bugs in production for years. His test suite was that good. He spent almost 95% of his time adding features instead of fixing bugs. He ended up maintaining two projects larger and more complex that projects maintained by whole teams and still had time to jump in and help teams that got stuck when needed. Another one unblocked a team that was stuck for 3 months making zero progress in a single meeting. And none of the 10x developers were assholes. Easy to talk to and always eager to learn how to do things better. Respect!