> a x10 Engineer, i.e someone who churns out loads of code and fast, is usually disruptive to a team and often produces code that’s hard to grok and harder to c

> a x10 Engineer, i.e someone who churns out loads of code and fast, is usually disruptive to a team and often produces code that’s hard to grok and harder to change "hard to grok" for who? Not for another high level engineer... which means that hiring more low level engineers is limiting the organization to low level code. I think this leads to sacrificing powerful high level concepts that when implemented could add tons of value to the business, in reduce cost of development or directly using less compute power and saving money. Unlike other engineering disciplines, software has unlimited potential as we can see with the emerging industry of AI. The perceived notion that advanced engineers do not scale well in teams is missing the point. Advanced engineers use software to scale production, not other people.