I've run into this as well. There's a cog in the wheel developer and ... they have their place, and in many orgs they're the only thing that works.
But if you're not that person (and I like to think I'm not) and you are curious and stop to think about second order effects, future features that are a little obvious, and so on ... it's really painful working with those developers who do not.
I worked with one recently, not a bad person at all, but now I'm cleaning up his project that 100% did exactly what the tickets told him to do. And the project that he worked on that was designed to replace a piece of software that had issues ... has every single issue the old one had for all the same reasons (someone coded it in the easiest possible way + only what the ticket told them to).
So frustrating.
I will say this though, I find the use of the term "10x developer" a sort of buzzword smell for the kind of reckless developer with no oversight who "gets the job done" at great cost ... because they can do what they want and then everything is siloed and potentially a disaster when anyone has to touch it or they bolt when it becomes clear their tower of cards is ready to come down.
Not to say I disagree with your statement generally, just that term tends to make me worry.
But if you're not that person (and I like to think I'm not) and you are curious and stop to think about second order effects, future features that are a little obvious, and so on ... it's really painful working with those developers who do not.
I worked with one recently, not a bad person at all, but now I'm cleaning up his project that 100% did exactly what the tickets told him to do. And the project that he worked on that was designed to replace a piece of software that had issues ... has every single issue the old one had for all the same reasons (someone coded it in the easiest possible way + only what the ticket told them to).
So frustrating.
I will say this though, I find the use of the term "10x developer" a sort of buzzword smell for the kind of reckless developer with no oversight who "gets the job done" at great cost ... because they can do what they want and then everything is siloed and potentially a disaster when anyone has to touch it or they bolt when it becomes clear their tower of cards is ready to come down.
Not to say I disagree with your statement generally, just that term tends to make me worry.