I realize that his engine development abilities alone qualify him as an excellent developer, probably at least top 1% of all developers. What I think the articl

I realize that his engine development abilities alone qualify him as an excellent developer, probably at least top 1% of all developers. What I think the article is talking about is the true handful-in-a-generation elite, who are quantifiably orders of magnitude better than the top 1%, and have the money and fame to go along with it. Are his development abilities alone that much better than even the average top 1% developer, or is it more other things to go along with that? Or maybe it's more accurate to say that you can't really separate pure development skill from being able to develop the right program for the right market at the right time. Take Mark Zuckerberg for example. He's probably a really good developer, but he didn't become a famous billionaire on development skill alone. He is where he is because he had the right idea at the right time, and executed it aggressively and intelligently. Is that a separate skill from pure development, or is it part of being an elite developer?