[lazarljubenovic]

I never understood the concept of 10x apart from it being a (misused) meme. For (almost) every developer you can find one that will do "the thing" a few times faster and one that will do it a few times slower. It also depends on what is "the thing".

[anthonypasq]

This is another example of this delusion people have about specificity when comparing outliers to normal people.

Genius level programmers are better than you at everything related to computer science. And if they aren't familiar with it, they will become familiar with it in a fraction of the time and then easily surpass you. This is why we call human intelligence 'general'. Because it applies everywhere.

Unless you think your ability to do your job is entirely dependent on tooling and learned knowledge, smarter people will quickly become better than you.