I’ve never liked the idea of a 10x engineer. In my mind, the important distinction isn’t so much about the developers themselves, but more the environment that

I’ve never liked the idea of a 10x engineer. In my mind, the important distinction isn’t so much about the developers themselves, but more the environment that they are developing in. If your codebase is an inscrutable mess, you don’t have agency to make even minor decisions without slacking 6 people for an afternoon, and there is no documentation on a service you suddenly own, then guess what? You have no chance of being a 10x engineer. You probably can’t even be a 1x engineer!