> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. This is a great

> In my experience, the real measure of talent is not the speed or volume of output, but the capability to do tasks that other engineers can’t. This is a great point. People hear "10x" and assume it's a multiplier for the raw output. But it's really a multiplier for the impact of the work. No one can type or think 10x faster than the average - but their ideas can be 10x better. A strong engineer and a weak engineer may produce the same amount of code in the same time, but the strong engineer's code solves more complex problems more robustly, resulting in more value per line of code. In a sense, strong engineers are defined by what they don't do - they don't waste their time on low-impact work.