[uberman]

Nice article in general and a good breakdown of problem solving.

I don't get the tangential step to dismiss the notion that there are actually 10x developers. Particularly as your article goes on to explain exactly why there could be.

People who as you describe that can:

* Understand the problem and how to know when it’s solved

* Determine multiple possible ways to solve the problem

* Pick a solution and test if it solves the problem

Are very likely to be much more efficient that the programmer who can't even understand what the problem is to begin with or worse programmers who don't understand that they don't understand what the problem is but insist that it can be solved using that new and shiny toolkit they just found.

[okwolf]

My point about 10x developers is that they're not 10x better than average per the stereotype, but avoiding 90% of the wasted effort the average dev expends.