> the author is confusing what a 10x developer is.
Its a subjective definition. You have a different one to the author. sneak has a different definition to you.
That's a part of the problem: there's no clear definition and the label "10x developer" means different things to different things.
Some of these definitions definitely are a myth. Some are not. But the conversations about it tend to not be that meaningful, because everyone argues their own definition, which may or may not match up with other people who are also arguing theirs. The best we can do is define our definition and then state our reasoning about it and then others can agree or disagree or say yes but if you define it this way that I do, then its different because whatever.
Right now, everyone has a different definition and the discussion isn't that useful.
My coworker is a beast at churning out working code, but mine is often better abstracted and requires less refactoring to use in the future.
There are features where I spent 5-10x the time he'd do, but my code could then be used to later implement several dozen feature requests in mere minutes rather than hours and days.
Who's better? I'd say we've got different strengths, so depends on what you need to get done.
Its a subjective definition. You have a different one to the author. sneak has a different definition to you.
That's a part of the problem: there's no clear definition and the label "10x developer" means different things to different things.
Some of these definitions definitely are a myth. Some are not. But the conversations about it tend to not be that meaningful, because everyone argues their own definition, which may or may not match up with other people who are also arguing theirs. The best we can do is define our definition and then state our reasoning about it and then others can agree or disagree or say yes but if you define it this way that I do, then its different because whatever.
Right now, everyone has a different definition and the discussion isn't that useful.