I used to consider myself 10x years ago. But now probably like the author. There are too many tools, too many configurations, too complicated to get it all to w

I used to consider myself 10x years ago. But now probably like the author. There are too many tools, too many configurations, too complicated to get it all to work together. That is no longer 'programming', it is fighting a dozen tools that rarely get along. This all becomes inertia that takes 10x and slows it down to .5x. The environment is no longer suited towards focused work. If the day is spent futzing around with some library that stopped working then it is not spent on problem solving. Maybe that is the key, you are 10x if you are solving a real problem. But now you are spending that 10x on solving stupid problems with tooling, which is not aimed at the main problem. (10x Programmer) - (9x time spent on tooling) = a 1x Programmer.