[helsinkiandrew]

The best way to carry 8 gallons of milk across a muddy field in a leather bag is to leave it in the cow.

I never assumed that the 10x programmer was actually writing 10x the amount of code in the same time but instead knowing how to do something in a 10th of the time, with less risk and cost (by a using a better algorithm, novel approach, or 3rd party package etc).

It's the difference between being a developer and a programmer