Teach generations of developers how to make their code better, making the whole industry much better than it'd have been otherwise. A 10x dev IMHO is not only g

Teach generations of developers how to make their code better, making the whole industry much better than it'd have been otherwise. A 10x dev IMHO is not only great coding, but makes everyone around them better. Now that said, I'm going to edit to change him for Linus Torvalds, since you are right that he might not be the archetypal 10x dev as he's not famous for his code, but for his writings.