<i>&gt;Also, I hate the term &quot;10x engineer&quot;</i><p>Even if people were to use a new term such as &quot;3-Sigma Programmer&quot; instead of &quot;10X Programmer&quot;, the ensuing debates would still be the same.<p>To make peace with the &quot;10x&quot; label, I suggest people just think of it as a <i>figure-of-speech</i> instead of a mathematical term.  We don&#x27;t get hung up when people say <i>&quot;Star Wars IV was ten times better than Phantom Menace&quot;</i> or <i>&quot;I&#x27;m not even 1&#x2F;2 the football player I used to be.&quot;</i>