A good editor (and the ability to use it efficiently) is a relatively small factor, comparable to the ability to type quickly. Much greater leverage can be fou

A good editor (and the ability to use it efficiently) is a relatively small factor, comparable to the ability to type quickly. Much greater leverage can be found in the ability to innovate, to have the undestanding needed to quickly select a good approach to solve some problem and the social skills needed to lead a team or company in a direction where they can (to re-use the term) leverage such new innovations in ways that generate maximum value. For instance, if you have a team that uses RESTful java microservices on k8s for EVERYTHING, many compute heavy or IO heavy tasks may require massive clusters to run a data processing pipeline. If you're the engineers that identifies this as inefficient, finds way to build the pipeline using a more suitable tech stack, and introduce this stack to your company, you could the infrastructure cost of a company by millions per year. That's kind of comparing the use of cargo ships to mules for transporting goods. And if the tech you introduce also enable 10 other devs to develop 3x faster, this alone would make your effort as valuable as having at least 20 more such engineers. (20x).