I&#x27;m a 10x engineer - under perfect conditions.<p>But I think focusing on this work is wrong-headed.  As noted in the article, making 5 other developers twice as efficient is roughly equivalent.  The difference is that I can&#x27;t sustain a 10x rate (I do a lot of &quot;research programming&quot; where I&#x27;m probing a domain rather than producing production code), while there&#x27;s a good chance that training other developers will translate into a 2x (or better) increase in the team&#x27;s productivity.