I.e.: Let's explore every possible angle from which we could detract from the phenomenon. Leave no stone unturned! By my count, I've worked with 6 of these myt

I.e.: Let's explore every possible angle from which we could detract from the phenomenon. Leave no stone unturned! By my count, I've worked with 6 of these mythical creatures at 3 jobs in 15 years. Is that rare? I don't think so. The fact is, in a lot of cases the team or even the entire company would not even exist as they did, without these people. And everyone knew it because it was blindingly obvious. What would id software have been without John Carmack? Did you know that the first version of Microsoft Math, which included a fully general algebra solver, was written by one guy as a side project? Nobody else on that whole team did anything like that. Just that guy. The 10x dev is the person all the other devs are intimidated by, strictly on the basis of the code they've written.