> One variety of 10x pretender I call them an "almost 10x'er" ... they pump out 10x code but it is a horrible buggy mess. I got pulled in to help one team tha

> One variety of 10x pretender I call them an "almost 10x'er" ... they pump out 10x code but it is a horrible buggy mess. I got pulled in to help one team that was months late on a release and found that their entire team was swamped with whack-a-mole bug fixing code that the "superstar" had written while the "superstar" was banging out new features for the next release. None of the features they wrote actually worked but they got the credit for developing those features and the rest of team was being blamed for not being able to ship the features. So I get why people can be jaded by the whole 10x thing.