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I think there are 10x developers because the vast majority are 1x.

• rurounijones 14y ago
  That of course it depends on what you call a "developer" and what your standard of "1x developer" is. I know people who are full-time developers who I would class as less than 1x
  • barren_samadhi 14y ago
    So, Zipf rather than Bell .. ?
• mamcx 14y ago
  10x at what? What is 1x? Programming is a wide field. In some tasks, I'm faster. In others, very slow. Give opportunity to do only the things I'm good (and pay me!) and happy I will. But... I need to do a lot of stuff I'm not good, or is unrelated to programming per se (I'm a solo startup) and sometimes is like the time is stopped...
• kinleyd 14y ago
  I'm of the same view. I think there is some fuzzy logic going on here: If the majority are 1/10 developers (as the op asserts) and thus form the baseline x, aren't the 1/1 developers by definition 10x developers?
  • clubhi 14y ago
    haha exactly... It doesn't matter at what number you set as the baseline. We would say a developer's productivity is an average (mode perhaps) of all developers' productivity. There are a percentage of them that are 10x more productive. Its much worse than that in my experience. Some people won't be able to jump over hurdles no matter how hard they try. I'm like that for making a website look good (pre-boostrap). I'd eff around an entire week on swapping colors and changing pixels sizes.