[liamcardenas]

Why wouldn’t there be such thing as a 10x programmer? Is the average programmer so good? There are outliers in every industry. Professional athletes are a clear example — they are often many orders of magnitude better than the average player of their respective sport.

There are probably also a few 100x engineers, maybe someone like Elon.

[paublyrne]

The equivalent comparison would be professional athletes at the top of their sport to other professional athletes in that sport working or playing in a lower league. Would the the top performers be 10x the other ones? Hard to quantify this, but I'd say no, more like 2x or at most 3x

[thoman23]

All you have to do is look at someone like LeBron. He single-handedly makes a team a championship contender.