Oh, yeah, I agree, but many people are taking this too-literally. That's why I don't like this label and call them "super-hero" programmers or "rock-star" progr

Oh, yeah, I agree, but many people are taking this too-literally. That's why I don't like this label and call them "super-hero" programmers or "rock-star" programmers. As far as I remember the original term "10x" was created after some studies finding the differences between the worst and the best programmers. But this didn't mean there was nothing in the middle, only that the variance was high. And I completely agree there are plenty of really terrible programmers, so being 10x better is actually an easy task if you compare to them ;)