>>People love to say that a rockstar can do the work of 10 regular engineers. That's just nonsense. 9 women can't have one baby in a month, and 10 "rockstar" de

>>People love to say that a rockstar can do the work of 10 regular engineers. That's just nonsense. 9 women can't have one baby in a month, and 10 "rockstar" developers can't replace 100 regular ones. A somewhat confusing attempt to use the 9 women analogy here - it doesn't prove the author's point in any way. I've worked with rockstar coders and engineers and my empirical experience suggests he's wrong.