I think my coworkers mostly think of me as a 10x programmer, and I think this is due to a few factors: - I am familiar with almost all the code at our business

I think my coworkers mostly think of me as a 10x programmer, and I think this is due to a few factors: - I am familiar with almost all the code at our business and can pretty much jump in anywhere and start working. Most developers try and get themselves comfortable with some small piece and become the master of that piece, but I've pretty actively avoided that. Early it was to keep myself from getting pigeon-holed, but by now I've seen so many different things that I recognize a lot of patterns most people don't, so I can pretty comfortably work on whatever and be productive quickly. - I leave lots of comments whenever I'm not sure of something so the next person won't be afraid to throw my code away, especially when I'm working outside of my usual area (which nowadays is pretty much all the time). So there are little bits of my thought process spread all throughout our organization. - I moonlight on side projects regularly and gain experience with other toolchains that way. Because of that I often come up with solutions that are outside the usual ideas that others would normally gravitate towards. - Once I've got a solution in my head I can really slam some code out. - In most of my life I'm fairly disorganized, but VERY organized when it comes to structuring my work. I think this catches people off guard. - I'm routinely the guy who gets tagged to work on struggling projects, and those projects typically have a lot of the same obvious problems to fix. So it looks like I'm being very productive (and relatively speaking, I am), but I'm doing things that are basically routine habit for me that the team in question obviously has not been doing. So it looks like magic. I don't think any of those things make me special or more able than anybody else. I think it's just a product of the choices I made early in my career to gain as much exposure as I have.