[johnqian]

The term "10x engineer" always leads to incongruous conversation. Everyone has a different impression of what a 10x engineer is, depending on who they've met and how much they enjoy coding. There's those who think 10x = not team player, and there's those who've met an engineer who's both extremely productive and likable. There's those who think 10x = no life inevitable burnout, and those who realize there are people who genuinely enjoy programming more than "normal" hobbies, along with people who are unusually productive but otherwise normal.

This author believes that "10x programmers care about the code. Everything else is secondary." That seems even more arbitrary than other definitions.

I say we let the term become a joke meme and nothing more.