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by Aeolun 1346 days ago
> some of those can only be solved by handful of people

Ultimately it can probably be solved by other people, but it’d take multiple years.

I think the 10x is not so much because those engineers are particularly fast, it’s just that anyone else working in the domain is 10x slower.

Like if I tried to build a compiler, I’d quickly become known as a 0.1x engineer.