It’s an interesting conception of the 10x developer, but I feel like the 10x developer is just someone who does what the 0.1x developer here does, but 10x faste

It’s an interesting conception of the 10x developer, but I feel like the 10x developer is just someone who does what the 0.1x developer here does, but 10x faster. It should mean excellence in all respects, just 10x more of it. That’s what we’re x-ing, not just raw lines of code per hour. There’s truth though about the “leave a trail of destruction in their wake”. I worked around a guy like that at Airbnb. It was a very consensus place then, and getting everyone around to agree to do stuff took forever. So, if some guy can lie/bully/cheat to do whatever they promised management, yeah, they do get more done. But it’s indicative of a sick organization, there was an HR investigation of his abuse, and everyone who knows anyone this guy burned has him on their do-not-hire list. I heard at a party he joined a company I had on my interesting-companies list, now it’s on my never-work-there list.