<i>sadly it&#x27;s precisely what business are not gonna doing.</i><p>I&#x27;ve spent much of my career doing close to nothing, with pay increasing each year. Many businesses seem to recognize it and reward it. I&#x27;ve never had an employer who measured contributions by LoC (though unless you&#x27;ve proven yourself of course there is some measure of productivity, such as stories completed, etc. Everyone knows what everyone else did).<p>As stated in the root of this thread, this article <i>completely</i> misses the point of the 10x engineer, to the point of almost parody. The 10x engineer is the one who builds the tiny core of an app that makes everything else easily possible. Or who moves the whole team from one derlict, no longer useful technology to another. And so on. It has never, ever, been &quot;the guy who spits out 10x the lines of code&quot;.