I have worked with people who needed to see the whole picture before they could implement anything. Whereas I can seem to be able to jump in and start building

I have worked with people who needed to see the whole picture before they could implement anything. Whereas I can seem to be able to jump in and start building even while lacking information. I have some weird ability (or perhaps not so weird, it is probably just a result of experience) to infer what is not yet there; the whole picture only becomes clear to me when I am done. In those cases, I was seeing at least a 10x productivity increase because while they were sitting around thinking about the problem, I was already writing code, working on the parts that I did understand, while gaining a greater understanding of the rest during that process. Once we all reached the point of understanding, those gains became negligible, and our productivity was probably closer to par. If you're writing the same old boilerplate code day in, day out, it is probably hard to realize increased productivity between individuals. However, if you're venturing into new problems constantly, I believe different developers can be quite a bit more productive over others.