To me a 10x programmer has never been the definition of an excellent programmer, but a programmer that allows the overall productivity of his team to be multipl

To me a 10x programmer has never been the definition of an excellent programmer, but a programmer that allows the overall productivity of his team to be multiplied by 10. Maybe all programmers in the team have to build a website from scratch in Ruby, and he decides (and delivers) to build a web framework that allows his team to be 10 times more productive, not having to bother with the whole HTTP stack but only care about the application, i.e the added value of the team. Maybe he created a new programming language that allows the logic to be expressed and deployed 10 times as fast, and allows the code to be X times more maintainable than before; that's where productivity booms and the team (and in the end, the company) can deliver real products in accordance to what the users want. It does mean that the 10x programmer is better than others, but that's not the way this definition defines him: it only care how much he enables other to be more productive.