> are actually 10x (or more) To me, the more likely explanation is that this guy is an excellent developer, working on a problem he was suited to, and that's a

> are actually 10x (or more) To me, the more likely explanation is that this guy is an excellent developer, working on a problem he was suited to, and that's about all you can say. He came up with good strategies and insights here, and worked hard, and did a lot of other stuff right. But the idea of a generically 10x developer is a cartoonish oversimplification of how the world works.