> There are definitely 10X programmers out there Possibly, I've just never met one yet. That's saying the guy contributes like 2 teams in his company, pretty i

> There are definitely 10X programmers out there Possibly, I've just never met one yet. That's saying the guy contributes like 2 teams in his company, pretty insane. But again, I've always worked in companies that produced relatively straightforward software...the problems we are dealign with don't require a tremendous talent or creativity. They require patience, attention to detail, communicating well with product, hard work, etc. I could even see how being extremely talented can work against you sometimes doing this work. So there's not so much value in being 150 IQ (or whatever measure of ability we want to use) imo doing what I do. Sure you will be faster and better but no, you won't produce like 10 people.