Far worse for the industry than all these supposedly awful programmers out there is the rampant egotism that dominates developer culture, and that's where this

Far worse for the industry than all these supposedly awful programmers out there is the rampant egotism that dominates developer culture, and that's where this ridiculous 10x obsession comes from. In comparison to the psychopathic, dishonest, and often destructive class of narcissistic "executives" who run the mainstream business world, I'd say that the mildly-annoying social mediocrity of "10x developers" is a non-concern. Often, when a software engineer says "this won't work", it's because it actually won't work.