There is alot more to it I think than meets the eye. I've seen a wide spectrum of talents. I've seen some with the capacity to be 10x who have no motivation,

There is alot more to it I think than meets the eye. I've seen a wide spectrum of talents. I've seen some with the capacity to be 10x who have no motivation, and some with almost no chance of reaching 10x status with all the motivation in the world. I think one of the differentiators, in what makes a 10x programmer significantly more valuable is alot of things people are trying today have never been done before. So to have the insight that a 10x programmer can bring to the table is priceless. I think it's entirely wrong to believe, in these cases, that you can achieve the same result with average developers. On the other hand, if you're doing things that have been done a million times before, there's likely to be a few tried and true templates people can follow to get a functioning system up and running.