Comment by phroobster

Lots of pushback in this thread against the idea of 10x, 50x, etc. engineers. If we’re just measuring performance relative to the average software developer then I don’t see why they wouldn’t exist. I’ve met developers who solve problems that the average developer would simply never solve no matter how much time they threw at it. You could make the argument that they are “infinityx” engineers, as silly as that might sound.