Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021)
> We should be far more focused on avoiding 0.1x programmers than finding 10x programmers ... The 10x programmer is a silly myth.<p>I've worked with far too many 0.1x programmers, too many 1x programmers to count and maybe a handful of 10x programmers.<p>I always flabbergasted when people say things like "The 10x programmer is a silly myth." ... have they really, in all their years, never, ever worked with a superstar?<p>I worked with a guy who wrote the framework of a medical imaging system almost entirely by himself; hundreds of thousands of lines of FDA design systems quality code complete with tests that formed the backend of a successful product that was used on almost every MRI and CT scanner for years all while mentoring developers all around him.