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by goatinaboat 2040 days ago
Would you consider someone a 10x engineer if they can crank out a super-fancy backend service in 1 weekend that nobody wants to pay for or actually use?

In a competitive situation a person might be 10% better but win 10x as often as the next best person. This is often taken to mean they are 10x better however.