One of the first mentions* I saw on HN about the elusive 10xer was an article about the exact types of gains the author of this article is talking about -- a 10xer knows where to apply their effort and as such is an order of magnitude faster in achieving the business outcome, not producing LOC.<p>I feel like the author has wrapped up some sensible expectations for any  senior developer and then soiled the content with a clickbait title.<p>* something to do with using a sticker printed on a transparency instead of some computer vision project.