The point Paul Graham (and the 10x hustler article) made was that if you are good, you could be 10 times more productive. Not because you type 10 times faster

The point Paul Graham (and the 10x hustler article) made was that if you are good, you could be 10 times more productive. Not because you type 10 times faster or develop the same code 10 times faster than somebody else, it is because none of the big coorporation bureaucracy slows you down and you can choose whatever technology you want and don't have the burden of code that is growing in size and complexity that you have to maintain.