This whole article misses the point of what productive means and why 10x developers are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars at Google et al.<p>Basically, the author has defined 0.1x to be EXACTLY what people mean when they say a 10x Engineer.<p>All of this &quot;non-productive&quot; stuff they are mentioning is the actual productivity that the 10x Engineer delivers.  Somebody who writes hundreds of thousands of lines of unnecessary code is, by definition, not a 10x Engineer.