The closest to "10x" engineer that I knew wasn't necessarily the best or fastest programmer but he would see what we needed before we needed it and already have

The closest to "10x" engineer that I knew wasn't necessarily the best or fastest programmer but he would see what we needed before we needed it and already have it done. A manager would say we will need something to which they would reply they've already done it. They would read the play like Gretzky to know where they had to be ahead of time.