I have made my peace with this pernicious meme. I have decided that as a ok developer who can sometimes shoe flashes of insight and produce some good code,<p>I will do what <i>ghostbusters</i> recommend :<p>- when someone asks<p>- are you a 10x engineer?<p>I will reply<p>- yes<p>And not try to disabuse non technical folks from their nice comforting ideas about how development really happens